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by vogre 1474 days ago
That changes nothing. Finland refused to pay.

Most of the European companies adopted the new scheme within their current contracts, so it was a technical thing. Russia just needed to be paid in currency that can not be stolen by some lunatic government.

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It was not just a technical thing... it was unilateral change of a legal contract and blackmail by Russian regime that yet again demonstrated clearly that contracts and treaties mean nothing to it.
Actually all the sanctions from the west are unilateral change to thousands of contracts, and expropriation of russian assets is straightforward stealing.

Even freezing of central bank accounts is basically the unilateral unlawful change of contract.

Finland broke the contract with russian railroads, with russian electric providers, it cancelled the contract with RosAtom.

Additionally it started the process of joining NATO, which effectively breaks the peace treaty of 1948.

Who are you? Some russian troll?