The consumer price index rose by 10 percent year-on-year in 2021, up from 5 percent a year earlier.

Global growth is expected to moderate from 5.9 in 2021 to 4.4 percent in 2022—half a percentage point lower for 2022 than in the IMF's October forecast.

The government has also placed 5-year securities totalling 174.5 billion soums with the weighted average interest coupon payment of 14.5 percent annually.

In the end, the payment was met when the government’s State of Emergency Commission ordered the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to turn over to gas utility Moldovagaz $26 million originally intended to subsidise consumers' gas bills.

Silknet said that the interest rate is 8.375 percent and its holders will receive the coupon twice a year.

Equinor and SOCAR are cooperating in Azerbaijan on the exploration and production in the promising areas of Ashrafi-Dan Ulduzu-Aypara since May 2018.