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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.
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.
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.
Uzbekistan's prices fell in July, and its petrol rose 21.7% in a year
Consumer prices in Uzbekistan fell 0.1% in July as the vegetable season arrived. Petrol rose 4.8% in the month and 21.7% over the year.
Solar and wind take $376 million of the Kyrgyz-Russian list
Participants at the eighth Kyrgyz-Russian economic forum at Bosteri on Lake Issyk-Kul signed projects whose sector totals come to $545.1 million, with two renewable plants accounting for $376 million of that. The head of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund put the value of all documents signed, trade contracts and inter-regional agreements included, above $800 million.
Tajikistan triples its fuel imports from the neighbours
Tajikistan took 34,000 tonnes of motor fuel from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in July, three times the June volume, while Russian petrol shipments to the country halved. The Moscow Times relayed the Reuters figures on Thursday, citing two industry sources.
Recovered assets flow into village water for a second day
For the second morning in a row, Kazakhstan's government has taken money from its recovered-assets fund and pointed it at rural water: 2.7 billion tenge (about $5.7 million) on Thursday, after 5 billion tenge (about $10.6 million) on Wednesday.
Three agreements and one grievance arrive at Issyk-Kul
The 47th Eurasian Intergovernmental Council opens in Cholpon-Ata on Thursday with three agreements prepared for signature and a warning from Yerevan already on the record.
India calls an Uzbek trade pact a promising idea
India’s commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal offered Tashkent the vocabulary of interest at a business forum in New Delhi: a free trade agreement is an idea the two governments could examine.
The Caspian data cable finishes its seabed leg
Kazakhtelecom and its Azerbaijani partner have finished laying fibre across the Caspian floor between Aktau and Sumgait, the hardest stretch of a line due to complete testing this autumn.
Uzbekistan’s satellite reaches orbit with its own AI on board
Samarkand-2028 went up from a sea platform off China’s Shandong coast on Wednesday morning, carrying a hyperspectral camera and an AI module Uzcosmos says its own engineers built.
All of Tajikistan’s imported wheat now comes from one country
Tajikistan bought 660,800 tonnes of wheat abroad in the first half of 2026, every tonne of it from Kazakhstan, while its own output fell 13.3% to 510,000 tonnes.
A first survey seats two parties in the Kurultai
Eighteen days before Kazakhstan elects its first Kurultai, the one party rating published in the campaign gives Adilet 65.1% and puts every other party except Auyl under the 5% bar.
Turkmenistan reports growth the IMF cannot find
Ashgabat’s half-year review claims GDP growth of 6.3%. The IMF projects 2.4% for the year and says it builds its own estimates because the official numbers are hard to reconcile with anything else.
The lake the region meets on is losing its ice
Kyrgyzhydromet has measured what the heat is doing. A third of the Issyk-Kul basin’s glacier area is gone against the early catalogues, 23.1% of it in the past 7 to 10 years, and the region’s summits keep convening on the shore of the evidence.