Kommersant's report went up at 17:40 on Thursday; it does not date the meeting. Novak's list ran on: regional operators have been appointed to sell products through independent stations in regions where the vertically integrated companies have no networks, so that the majors can supply fuel there under the regional authorities' control, and a headquarters for the stabilisation of fuel supply has worked since October 2025, monitoring prices at refineries, on the exchange and at the pumps, with agriculture, the northern delivery, aviation and the regions as its priorities.
The pump permit is the newest piece. A government resolution allows stations to sell petrol and diesel of classes K2, K3, K4 and K5 from 1 September to 30 June 2027, RIA Novosti reported on the evening of 31 August, citing the government: the measure aligns retail rules with earlier decisions that let fuel of different ecological classes into circulation, and stations must give buyers full information on the class of what they sell. "The resolution is temporary in nature and is an instrument of rapid response to the current conditions of the fuel market," the government said. RIA's report gives no resolution number.
The export side is unchanged. Petrol exports are banned for all exporters to 31 January 2027, diesel for non-producers to the same date and for producers to 30 September inclusive, jet fuel to 30 November. On 4 September Novak said exports would reopen "as stocks form", without a date. The Tax Code change for imports has no instrument in the desk's record; Novak named it and gave no detail.
The region buys behind these decisions. Kyrgyzstan's decree №579 of 26 August fixes reference import prices of $960 a tonne for AI-92 and $1,050 for diesel and pays importers the difference between the fixed price and their actual cost until 31 December; about 1 billion som of subsidies had been paid to traders as of 19 August, the antimonopoly service said. Retail AI-92 in Kyrgyzstan rose from 75.9 to 87.9 som a litre between 30 December and 2 September, AI-95 from 81.4 to 109.9 and diesel from 80.9 to 99.9, 24.kg reported on Thursday.
The resolution is temporary in nature and is an instrument of rapid response to the current conditions of the fuel market
Tajikistan imported 599,500 tonnes of oil products in the first half, 91.1% of them from Russia, at customs unit values of $807 a tonne for petrol and $789 for diesel. Mongolia's fuel headquarters logged 19,853 tonnes of AI-92 across the border in September's first week against a 10,000-tonne Chinese petrol delivery for the whole month. The last print the desk logged for Russia's national exchange index was 4 September: AI-92 at 68,805 roubles a tonne and summer diesel at 68,610; no print for 10 or 11 September was found on Friday morning.
Novak's report to Manturov carried no date for any of the doors to open. The producers' diesel ban runs out in 19 days.