Bloomberg said Gazprom’s gas exports fell to a three-month low, and Oleg Tinkov spoke about the bank’s sale – these and other important news for Monday morning, May 2, in our daily review.

Tinkoff Bank founder Oleg Tinkov said he was forced to sell his stake in the bank “for pennies” after he made a statement about the events in Ukraine. The businessman said this in an interview with The New York Times.

Daily exports of Russian natural gas to key markets outside Russia and the former Soviet Union fell to a three-month low in April, Bloomberg wrote, citing its own calculations.

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Nanai Mahuta said the country has placed 170 Russian senators on a sanctions list, as well as six defense companies, because of the situation in Ukraine.

Former US President Donald Trump said that under his successor Democrat Joe Biden, the country lost its energy independence and had to “beg for mercy” from Russia and OPEC.

Jörg Koukis, the German chancellor’s assistant for economic affairs, said Berlin was in favor of an embargo on Russian oil, but it would take “several months” to prepare to cut off supplies.

“We want to stop buying oil from Russia, but we need some time to make sure we can secure other sources of oil supplies for the country,” Koukis told the Financial Times newspaper.