Thread by @Ardakmergenbai

1. TOKAEV BUILT A TRANSPORT BRIDGE TO CIRCUMVENT SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
@ablyazovMK
Russian transport bridge in Kazakhstan to bypass sanctions and parallel imports. @Podolyak_M @ZelenskyyUa @oleksiireznikov @POTUS @StateDept

2. On February 10, it became known that the Russian company JSC "Retrans", associated with the Russian oligarch Viktor #Vekselberg, bought the international airport in the city of Uralsk in western Kazakhstan, in close proximity to the borders with Russia. @UnderSecStateJ

3. Viktor Vekselberg is under sanctions from 🇬🇧, the 🇺🇸, 🇯🇵 and 🇨🇦. The purchase of an international airport in 🇰🇿 by a Russian company affiliated with sanctioned Viktor Vekselberg points to the creation of a transport bridge in Kazakhstan to bring sanctioned goods to 🇷🇺.

4. For understanding: Uralsk is about 50 kilometers from the Russian border, and the nearest major Russian city (Samara) is just over 250 kilometers away.
It is possible to freely bring in subsanctioned goods through the air bridge in Uralsk,

5. since the goods will be imported as if they were in 🇰🇿. And then they can be brought into 🇷🇺even by truck.
Tokayev does not just know about this deal, without his help such a deal would not have happened, so he is responsible for helping Russia circumvent #sanctions.

6. @tomkmiec
@Europarl_EN
@vonderleyen
@RishiSunak
@OSCE
#personalsanctions for #Tokayev, #Nazarbayev.