“The European Union does not yet have common purchases of gas and oil for European countries.

We continue to adhere to our oil and gas contracts with Russia.

In accordance with them, the question of what currency to pay in is a technical one.

This does not mean circumventing any sanctions policy, ”RIA Novosti quotes Kovacs as saying.

According to him, Hungary depends on gas from Russia by 85%.

Earlier, Candidate of Technical Sciences Alexander Vlasov, in an interview with the Economics Today FBA, said that, in his opinion, all EU countries would start buying gas for rubles.