Comply Or Be Cut Off: Putin Is Serious About His Rubles Threat

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would halt active natural gas contracts if Russia’s customers fail to comply with the demand to pay in rubles for gas, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Putin has set a March 31 deadline for the government, Gazprom, and the central bank of Russia to make the arrangements for payments in rubles for Russian gas from the so-called “hostile” countries. And Putin has told “unfriendly” states that the gas supplies will be halted as of April 1 if they do not…