Turkey Given U.S. Sanctions Waiver Extension to Pay for Russian Gas

Turkey will get a three-month extension of the U.S. sanctions waiver allowing it to pay for Russian natural gas imports via a U.S.-sanctioned Russian bank, a Turkish official with direct knowledge of the situation told Bloomberg on Thursday. Turkey, which imports about half of its gas from Russia, obtained the first such U.S. waiver in December, after the United States sanctioned Russian Gazprombank at the end of November. Before November 21, the U.S. Treasury had refrained from imposing sanctions on Gazprombank, which has been used by Russia’s…Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei OilPrice.com Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei OilPrice.com