Germany may pay Russia a record €33.9 billion for oil, gas and coal in 2022, and the media have learned the amount of the deal on Potanin’s purchase of Rosbank from Societe General – these and other important news for Friday morning, April 22, in our daily review.

Germany may pay €3 billion more for Russian oil in 2022 than it did a year earlier, while its spending on gas imports from Russia will double, according to Greenpeace. In total, Germany will pay Russia €33.9 billion, which will be a record amount. To reduce revenues to the Russian budget, the organization proposed to introduce a tax on Russian gas.

“Interros” of billionaire Vladimir Potanin will buy Rosbank from the French Societe Generale for 0.2-0.3 of its capital (40-60 billion rubles), reported the newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to informed sources. It became known on April 11 that Societe Generale had agreed to sell its Russian assets – Rosbank and its insurance business – to Interros.

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) may completely withdraw from Russia by June 24, earlier the American oil giant decided to stop its operations in the country. This is reported by Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the company’s plans. “As we announced on March 1, we are ceasing operations and taking steps to exit the Sakhalin-1 venture,” Exxon spokesman Casey Norton said in an email.

“Rostec has agreed to sell 5% of the Elga coal complex in Yakutia to businessman Albert Avdolyan’s A-Property group, RBC writes. The agreement was confirmed by Rostec’s press service and a representative of A-Property. Avdolyan will buy 5% with his own money, the A-Property representative added.

Russia will lose its sixth place among the world’s economies in 2024, it will be surpassed by Indonesia in purchasing power parity (PPP), RBC writes with reference to the materials of the International Monetary Fund. According to the updated IMF forecast, in 2024, the share of Russian GDP in the global GDP, calculated by PPP, will fall to 2.52%, while the share of Indonesia will reach 2.61%.