In recent weeks, Russian companies have become more active in asking their Kazakh partners for help to circumvent Western sanctions and import essential goods, the agency reported. Reutersseven sources.
Two sources attributed this to Turkey’s plans to cut off the transit of sanctioned goods. As Reuters noted, Russia is looking for ways to import equipment and goods due to the sanctions imposed on it.
Traders created a complex network of supply chains through third countries to circumvent restrictive measures. Economists say many goods come via Turkey and the former USSR republics, the agency wrote.
Sources said there has been an increase in requests for Russian assistance in shipping goods from Kazakhstan’s 7,000km land border with the Russian Federation to bearings and aircraft parts to rare earth metals.
A Kazakhstani businessman told Reuters he was offered $1 million to help transport a truckload of rare earths from Australia. In the words of another entrepreneur, “the boom is just getting started.”
Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan declarationThat the republic will not impose sanctions on Russia after the Western countries, but does not intend to help Moscow bypass restrictive measures.