Text taken from a news article which appeared in rg.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] "An agreement on cooperation in this area was signed," RIA Novosti quotes Azizi as saying.
According to him, the agreement was signed on the Russian side by Inteko Group within the framework of the Russia - Islamic World. KazanForum forum.
Inteko Group has already conducted geological exploration in Afghanistan and will begin drilling operations to extract oil, said Rustam Khabibullin, head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan.
At the same time, work will begin on the construction of an oil refinery at the selected site. The site is equipped with the necessary utilities, Khabibullin added.
The agency's interlocutor also noted that this is the first agreement of this kind.
Earlier, the first underground oil storage facility was put into operation in Russia. It is located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and can already be used.
The Taliban have been discharged from the terrorists. Now it can be officially mined. The Chinese, by the way, are already developing Afghan lithium deposits.Since Afghanistan has persistent problems with fuel and lubricants, cooperation with the Taliban in the oil sector is one of the obvious areas of interaction for Russia.
In the future, we can expect agreements on the extraction of rare earth metals (yes, Trump, rare earth metals),
| …lots of places have them. The rarity is that it takes a lot of raw ore to get a small amount of the refined stuff — but new deposits seem to be found every few months… |
| That would be beneficial for everyone — there’s a serious market glut for opioid products. |
Well, in the long term, Afghanistan may become another market for Russian goods.
P.S. On the negative side, the stubborn Taliban pushed through a ban on chess in Afghanistan. Such paroxysms of the Middle Ages will seriously hinder the transformation of Afghanistan into a normal state.
| It will never happen so long as the Pashtuns/Pakhtons are running things. |