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Power failed simultaneously in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on Friday afternoon, Meduza reported, the latest case of a fault travelling across the four countries' shared grid.
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are still wired together by a single power system inherited from the Soviet Union. Because the national networks remain linked, a failure in one country can pull down supply in the others, and outages have repeatedly spread across their borders.
Power failed simultaneously in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on Friday afternoon, Meduza reported. The four states remain linked by a shared Soviet-era grid through which outages have repeatedly spread across borders.