The CIS extended its hand
The official amount of debts of the CIS countries to Russia is estimated at $4 billion. But even a far from complete calculation of the known data shows that it is underestimated by at least half. However, it is quite possible that by the end of the summit the debts will “dissolve.”
Kazakhstan recently received a forgiveness of $240 million for Russian electricity almost without a doubt. The President of Ukraine, whose debt for the supply of oil, gas and electricity from Russia reached, according to Kyiv itself, $2.2 billion, came to Moscow to try to achieve an installment plan for this debt. His Kyrgyz colleague Askar Akayev arrived with the same request. True, the debt of small and poor Kyrgyzstan is incomparably less - over $200 million. But another small country, Moldova, has accumulated debts like a large one - as much as $650 million. Both Tajikistan and Armenia have debts. According to some estimates, they are no less than several hundred million dollars. According to the latest data, the union Belarus owes about $300 million. But perhaps more.
Perhaps only two resource-rich CIS republics - Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan - do not owe Russia.

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 9 dated January 25, 2000, page 1