The agreement on management was originally made in February 2001, however the IPS/UPS technological integration for the electricity systems of Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with Russia happened during the Soviet Union.

Currently, IPS Kazakhstan operates synchronously with the UPS of Russia and the Integrated Power System of Central Asia.

The block includes the southern part of UPS of Kazakhstan, power systems of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

[31] IPS/UPS has a oneway interlink to the Nordic system via a back-to-back high-voltage direct current (HVDC) connection to Finland from Vyborg, Russia with a capacity of 1420 megawatts.

[32][33] In 2005, Russia and the EU considered unifying the IPS/UPS network with the ENTSO-E to form a single synchronous super grid spanning 13 time zones.

[4] On 13 May 2022, RAO Nordic released a statement saying Russia was halting the export of power to Finland due to lack of payment.

[35] The Amur-Heihe overhead transnational power line was constructed for increasing electricity exports from Russia to China and commissioned in 2012 with maximum capacity being 750 MW.

The agreement to develop a technical and economic feasibility study for the North-South energy corridor project with a total capacity of up to 1.2 GW, which is supposed to connect the power systems of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Iran, was signed in September 2016.

[40] In 2016, Armenia's Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Areg Galstyan said that the launch of the corridor "will ensure synchronous operation of the power systems of the four countries, as it was in Soviet era".

Both projects are being implemented within the framework of the concept of forming a North-South energy bridge that will connect the power systems of Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Russia.