By Ben Aris in Berlin Uzbekistan’s has entered into an $850mn gas storage expansion project with companies linked to sanctioned Russian state-sponsored oligarch (“stoligarch”) and close personal friend of Vladimir Putin, Gennady Timchenko, with Russia planning to increase gas deliveries to Uzbekistan fivefold, RFE/RL has reported. The project, situated at Uzbekistan’s principal gas field near Gazli in Bukhara region, was linked to Timchenko by an RFE/RL investigation. The majority 60%-stake in Gazli Gas Storage, the entity overseeing the gas storage expansion, has been transferred from Forus, …
