Gas exports from Shah Deniz amounted to 15.923 billion cubic metres (bcm) in the first eleven months of this year, 44.4 percent up from the same period last year.

The company suffered losses of 3 billion hryvnias in the third quarter after a profit of 306.7 million hryvnias in the first half of the year due to the seasonal increase in the generation of renewable energy sources.

The sentences were the latest in a long line of heavy punishments meted out to opponents of Lukashenko, who was re-elected to a sixth term in 2020.