they are to pay norfor gas in euros. the e.u. warned paying for russian gas in rubles would cause sanctions. two accounts for gazprom, one in euros, they say one could involve the russian central bank. the lag time between the depositing of the euros and the conversion into rubles could essentially mean, you know, europe s gas importers are loaning the money to gazprom which would be in violation of sanctions. the other thing they say, we don t know enough about the system russia has put in place to really know what is going on here and know how to deal with it. very unclear at the moment, but it doesn t seem like european countries are going to pay for gas, most of them, in rubles. and that means we could see more of these potential cutoffs of gas, very damaging to european