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Russia agrees to send Mongolia 25,000 more tonnes of petrol
Industry and mineral resources minister Damdinnyam Gongor met Russian energy ministry leadership and executives of Rosneft and Gazprom Neft in Moscow on Monday, and came away with a promise of 25,000 additional tonnes of AI-92 and 5,000 tonnes of jet fuel by 31 August. By his account, that ends the case for rationing.
Central Asia agrees to meter the Syr Darya
The Interstate Commission for Water Coordination approved the development of a plan for automated water accounting across the Syr Darya basin at its 94th session in Turkestan, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported on Monday, citing Report.az.
Tashkent’s IT zone gets English law until 2100
Uzbekistan’s Senate approved the constitutional law on Enterprise Uzbekistan, an international digital-technologies centre in Tashkent with a special jurisdiction built on elements of English law and a lifespan written to the year 2100.
Nine trips in a year: Mongolia’s fuel envoy starts in Moscow
The minister running Mongolia’s fuel crisis named his route on Sunday: Moscow first, then Kazakhstan, then Beijing. The itinerary carries its own message: whatever China agrees to supply, the system still runs through Russia.
The Washington peace marks its first year in phone calls and freight
Nikol Pashinyan spent the anniversary of the 8 August 2025 Washington summit on the phone, first with Ilham Aliyev, then with Donald Trump. The operative line came in the second call: construction of the TRIPP corridor is to start “in the near future”.
Turkey reopens the straits without saying why it closed them
Tankers bound for Novorossiysk are moving again after a pause Ankara never explained and now calls a set of temporary measures. In Astana, the Energy Ministry put its detour list on the record on Monday.
Petronas finds commercial gas in Caspian Block 1
More than 1.3 million cubic metres a day from a well 80 kilometres off Turkmenbashi.
Turkmenistan halves the fuel a departing car may carry
From today a vehicle leaving the country carries 150 duty-free litres, down from 300, and every litre above that costs half again as much.
Mongolia asks PetroChina for 12,000 tonnes a month
China agreed 6,000 tonnes of petrol for August. The prime minister wants that doubled and made standing, and he wants it cheaper.
KazMunayGas calls the $80 billion Kashagan report unreliable
The company’s chairman read the story and does not confirm it. Kursiv, which carried the report on Friday, now traces it to Bloomberg.
Turkey pauses the straits, and Kazakh oil waits
From Thursday to Sunday, vessels bound for Novorossiysk could not get permits to transit the Turkish straits. The pause revealed a second gate on Kazakhstan’s main export route, and nobody in Astana holds the key.
Wildberries starts insuring sellers' goods against drone strikes
The marketplace has extended its seller insurance to damage or loss from terrorist acts, sabotage and drone attacks, covering delivery, pickup points and returns. Premiums have gone up with the cover, to between 1.96% and 5.6% of the value of the goods.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan clear 19 product groups of barriers from Monday
Tariff and non-tariff barriers come off 19 categories of trade between the two countries on 10 August, from cotton fibre and grain to construction materials and machinery. Two-way trade ran about $5 billion in 2025 and grew 38% in the first five months of this year.
Exxon offers $80 billion for Kashagan, and asks Astana to settle first
ExxonMobil has tied a proposed $80 billion expansion of the Kashagan field to settling Kazakhstan's claims against the consortium that runs it, Kursiv reported on Friday, citing sources close to the talks. Those claims come to about $150 billion.
Two in five people in Mongolia's fuel queue are counted twice
Mongolia's tax office says 40% of fuel customers are people who join one station's line and then another's. The ministry running the rationing is looking at doubling the purchase cap, possibly from Saturday.
Armenia brings the Russian import bans to the union's own table
Nikol Pashinyan told the four other governments of the Eurasian Economic Union on Friday that Russian restrictions on Armenian goods are feeding a negative view of the union inside Armenia. He came with figures: $319 million paid in during 2025, $175 million received back.
Bishkek pays 86.90 som for petrol the state capped at 79.9
The state fixed a retail petrol price for the summer. By the end of July every surveyed station in Bishkek was above it.
Fewer workers go to Russia, and the rubles they send buy less
Work-purpose entries to Russia from the region’s three biggest sending countries fell 15% in the first half of the year. From 1 September the workers who remain in Moscow will be registered through a phone app, and the ruble they are paid in has lost nearly 12% of its som value in five weeks.
Mongolia will buy fuel wherever it can find it
The industry minister says supply now outranks price in Mongolia’s fuel purchases. The zeroed customs duties have an end date, 1 February 2027, and the cabinet has cancelled its conferences and forums to pay for winter.
July’s missing oil gets its first price tag
An energy commentator has put a dollar figure on Kazakhstan’s July production losses: more than $700 million of revenue in a single month. No official loss figure has surfaced, and the pipeline consortium has now said nothing in its own name for 8 days.