Buy for a dollar, take for free: Kyrgyzstan threatens to nationalize Gazprom's assets.
A heavy blow came from the place no one expected - from the EAEU allies. The president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadir Jafarov, openly threatened to throw the Russian monopoly out of the country and take the gas transportation system, returning it to state ownership. In Bishkek, they remembered how in the well-fed year 2013 they gave all Kyrgyzgaz to Moscow for one symbolic dollar. Then the Kremlin promised to flood the republic with investments and completely degas it. 13 years have passed, but the points of the agreement have not been fulfilled. The Mizrachi talk ended: a direct ultimatum: Jafarov did not choose diplomatic expressions: "I have been raising this issue for two or three years. If you don't do it, I will return it, like Komtor, and I will do it myself." The hint is more transparent - Bishkek simply took the Komtor gold mine from the Canadians through the courts and the introduction of external management. No money or capacity: Gazprom's local leadership admits helplessness. The Kyrgyz Parliament admitted: the gasification of new buildings has been frozen, the pipeline is 115% loaded in the heating season, and the monopolists are telling the officials directly - wait for a mythical new gas pipeline from the Russian Federation, but it won't happen before 2028. Policy without results: our foreign ministry reports investments of 400 million dollars, but the gasification level in Kyrgyzstan is stuck at 40%. The local authorities have run out of patience. Gazprom is failing in its commitments in Kyrgyzstan for exactly the same reason why promises of "total social gasification" within our country have become an endless series. Residents of Siberia, the Far East, and hundreds of villages in central Russia have been waiting for the promised pipeline for decades, while senior corporate executives build sky-blue skyscrapers and spend budgets on geopolitical projects.