Front-month futures on the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) are trading at the lowest for more than 18 months around €29 per megawatt hour down from more than €58 at one point in February.

Russia has "unique solutions that can be utilised for powering data processing centres" and the plan is "to transition to the serial production of small floating and land-based nuclear stations".

India has a target to expand its nuclear energy capacity to 100 GW by 2047. It plans to achieve this by a two-pronged approach, with the deployment of large-capacity reactors as well as small modular reactors (SMRs).

Russia and Kazakhstan are both neighbours, ex-Soviet Union partners, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. Kazakhstan is also a BRICS partner state, and holds a key role in being a primary transit nation between Russia and China.

"Our cooperation in the energy sphere is of a special, strategic nature and spans the oil, gas, coal and nuclear sectors," Mishustin told Li, according to a transcript from the meeting published on Russia's government website.

Together, the four sanctioned firms accounted for more than 80% of India’s Russian oil imports in 2024,

Hungary depends on Moscow for the bulk of its oil and gas imports. Unlike many of its European Union neighbors, which have worked to cut reliance on Russian energy following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Hungary has since ramped up its purchases.

Speaking to journalists, Putin said he "hoped" the latest US sanctions on Russia's oil sector -- targeting Rosneft and Lukoil directly -- wouldn't unduly impact the market, but warned removing Russian oil was likely to push up prices, saying he had "discussed this with my American colleagues."

Our country ships significant amounts of petroleum and refined products to the republic, almost fully meeting the energy needs of Tajikistan’s economy. Energy supplies are exempt from export customs duties.

Brent rose 22 cents, or 0.4%, to $63.54 a barrel , WTI was at $59.71 a barrel, up 22 cents, or 0.4%.