{"id":33600,"date":"2025-06-17T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:46:56","slug":"russia-writes-off-over-312-million-in-electricity-debt-to-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/russia-writes-off-over-312-million-in-electricity-debt-to-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia writes off over $312 million in electricity debt to Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia writes off over 25 billion rubles ($312.5 million) of Tajikistan\u2019s debt for electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The russian minister of energy, sergey shmatko, and the Minister of Energy of Tajikistan, Daler Juma, signed an agreement to gradually cancel a debt of 25.3 billion rubles to the &#8220;Sangtudinskaya hpp-1&#8221; for electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p>All of this happens against the backdrop of yet another tariff increase for russians starting July 1 \u2014 almost by 13%. kremlin once again shifts the financial burden of the war and sanctions onto ordinary citizens, while generously forgiving billions of dollars in debt to foreign &#8220;partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Debt cancellation or deferral is not charity. This is how russia tries to play the role of a &#8220;great power,&#8221; while also maintaining control over other countries, preserving political influence and dependence.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, kremlin deferred debt payments for belarus for seven years. Additionally, moscow enticed other countries to attend the &#8220;victory parade&#8221; held on May 9 in exchange for debt write-offs. Tajikistan was among the countries to whom the kremlin promised such a &#8220;bonus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia writes off over 25 billion rubles ($312.5 million) of Tajikistan\u2019s debt for electricity. The russian minister of energy, sergey shmatko, and the Minister of Energy of Tajikistan, Daler Juma, signed an agreement to gradually cancel a debt of 25.3 billion rubles to the &#8220;Sangtudinskaya hpp-1&#8221; for electricity supply. All of this happens against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}