Hungary's government has decided to withdraw its representatives from the Russia-controlled International Investment Bank (IIB) and will quit it, the Economic Development Ministry said, Reuters reports.
The decision comes a day after the United States imposed sanctions on three top officials of IIB in Budapest: two Russians and a Hungarian.
Despite agreeing to withdraw from the bank, Hungary expressed frustration at being pushed to do so.
"We accept and understand that we represent different positions, but we don't understand why pressuring other states to change theirs is necessary," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a press conference. "Hungary is a state, therefore it should be treated as one, instead of a colony."
Washington has said Hungary had ignored U.S. concerns raised over the "opaque Kremlin platform", a bank that moved its headquarters to Budapest from Moscow in 2019.
One representative at IIB had been Economic Development Minister Marton Nagy, sitting on the board of governors.
