This is a short-term suspension caused by Uzbekistan’s domestic difficulties, including the lack of fuel for electric power generation, he said. Within days Uzbekistan will resume electric power supplies of 2.2 million kilowatt-hours.

At the request of the Tajik government and President Emomali Rakhmon Turkmenistan doubled electric power export to Tajikistan to 6.6 million kilowatt-hours per day, Gulov said.

In compliance with an intergovernmental agreement Ashgabat will supply 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours to Tajikistan in winter/spring.

Although electric power supplies were increased, Tajik population’s electricity consumption is restricted to two-three hours per day. This restriction is linked with lower electric power generation at the republic’ s largest Nurek hydropower plant over water level reduction in the water storage reservoir.

Meanwhile, Tajikistan has unusually cold winter for the first time over the past 25 years. Tajik weather forecasters warn over the Siberian anti-cyclone that will bring cold weather with 15 degrees below zero after 7 February, Itar-Tass reported.