“What we have been talking about for a long time, but today it has become absolutely urgent, is the expansion of the use of national currencies in the EAEU states for settlements in trade ... I believe that it is necessary to intensify work in this direction,” TASS quotes him.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, said that the transition of countries to settlements in national currencies with partners has an effect, in particular, it contributes to the strengthening of the ruble.
In April, the head of the Armenian Ministry of Economy, Vagan Kerobyan, announced that Yerevan had begun making payments for Russian gas in rubles.