Masdar pledged to supply electricity to Uzbekistan’s unified energy grid at "record low tariffs" for 25 years.

Oil production in June declined from 718,000 bpd produced in October 2018, when members of OPEC+ agreed to reduce oil production gradually.

Though an armistice is largely holding, border disputes remain common, and a final peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is elusive.

The quantity of oil shipped through Azerbaijan, Georgia and on to Turkey and further into the Mediterranean market declined to 1.7 million tonnes in January to June this year.

The company said in April it would invest $200 million in the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 230 megawatts.

From the very beginning, Ukraine’s post-Soviet nation-building journey has been defined by competition between rival narratives that have sought to place the country within Russia itself. Conversely, the Western world has never quite managed to make up its mind about Ukraine and has generally adopted a cautious approach.