Mikhail Mishustin says Russia is "small modular reactor nuclear power plant in Myanmar" project

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said his country was moving ahead with a compact atomic power station assembled from modular reactor units, a statement that coincided with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing’s visit to Moscow. During that trip, Min Aung Hlaing met President Vladimir Putin at the Grand Kremlin Palace, and their discussions also covered a Russian-built harbor project at Dawei and oil refineries in Myanmar. It was the Myanmar leader’s seventh visit to Russia since the 2021 coup. The nuclear announcement fits a broader reported Russian strategy of cultivating ties with internationally isolated governments—including North Korea and Myanmar—while cooling relations with Japan, as Moscow seeks to present itself as an Asian power aligned with but independent from China.