Usually, governments create favorable conditions for the investments. In Tajikistan is happening the reverse, the investors are already in the country and ready to start working but some high officials are slowing down the process on purpose. The Russian investors are upset with the actions of their Tajik colleagues. Regnum is citing the newspaper “Fakti i kommentarii”, which published the interview with the head of “RUSAL” representative office in Tajikistan, Konstantin Zagrebalnyi. He denies the accusation that “RUSAL” is delaying the deadlines for construction of Rogun hydroelectric power station and blames Tajik officials for that.

How can anyone blame us for delaying the deadlines, while we have received only ten responses to our fifty requests from Tajik side, and all three requests of the World Bank are left without any attention. The Tajik officials have attributed words to President Vladimir Putin, which he never pronounced. Particularly, Putin never said that the construction of Rogun hydroelectric power station is going to be funded from the budget of Russian Federation. I don’t know when President of Russia said that, but you can not find such information in any mass-media. We will not move ahead with such announcements! Irresponsible announcements of Tajik officials are only subject to bewilderment for Russian members of the Intergovernmental Commission and officials of other departments involved in the project.