As EU imposes new sanctions on state-owned companies, Gazprom and Rosneft invest heavily in Central Asian state While Russias relationship with Ukraine has been grabbing the headlines, Moscow has been steadily strengthening its foothold in another of the post-Soviet states Kyrgyzstan. In the past few years Russia has written off half a billion dollars of the impoverished Central Asian countrys debt, pledged to supply the government with weapons and military equipment and taken over its gas network. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
