By Erica Marat Uzbekistan recently officially announced that it will quit the Central Asia power system. Tashkent's decision affects all countries in the region, with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan suffering the most. The recent policy shift reflects the predicaments of Soviet period planning of energy supplies in the Central Asian region when - in general terms - upstream and downstream countries were presupposed to trade water for fuel. Uzbekistan will now use its new Guzar-Surkhan...
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