Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov told a news conference in Dushanbe that Tajikistan wants to sell electricity to Europe cheaply when a series of new hydroelectric plants is completed. The Tajik power exports would use the Russian electricity grid. Oqilov noted that Tajikistan signed an agreement in June to supply 5 million kilowatts to Russia daily, thereby demonstrating that Tajik electricity can find a market. On 21 June, the Nurek hydroelectric plant, built in the Soviet era as the first in a series of power stations, began supplying electricity to Russia after a 13-year interruption, due largely to the Tajik civil war (1992-97) and reconstruction. Tajikistan is seeking investors to complete the entire project. (ITAR-TASS)