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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke by phone about cooperation problems in the power sector, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country, is the Russian infrastructure to export its oil at a time of value limits imposed by the West and a ban on purchases of Russian oil through the sea because of its movements in Ukraine.
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Last week, the Russian government approved a 10-year extension of an agreement with Kazakhstan for the transit of up to 10 million oil a year to China.
At the same time, Kazakhstan is trying to build Germany’s source of oil, Russia’s Druzhba pipeline, which is exempt from sanctions.
The Kremlin provided some main points about the phone call.