Catalogue · ID 229
The Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute of January 2009
Author: Stern J., Pirani S., Yafimava K.
Year of publication: 2009
Published in: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (material of an organisation or media outlet under copyright (oxfordenergy.org))
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Where the knowledge base cites it
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Campaigns
- Gas Wars and Energy Blackmail (2006–2009)
Exports to 16 EU member states and Moldova were drastically reduced on 6 January and cut completely from 7 January"
Supplies ran through opaque intermediaries (RosUkrEnergo), whose use "was long criticized in European government circles and by corporate governance bodies"
Procedures
- Gas Wars and Energy Blackmail (2006–2009) — technique Economic Blockade
on January 1, 2009 - "Russian exports to Ukraine were cut off on 1 January," after which exports to the EU were "drastically reduced on 6 January and cut completely from 7 January," and in the worst-affected Balkan countries a humanitarian emergency ensued, with "parts of the populations unable to heat their homes"
- Gas Wars and Energy Blackmail (2006–2009) — technique Bribery of Elites
The imposition of corrupt gas-supply schemes through intermediary companies: Moscow "used a series of intermediary trading companies (Itera from 1998, Eural Trans Gas from 2003, Rosukrenergo (RUE) from 2005) to transport, and sometimes to supply, the gas to Ukraine," a practice that "was long criticized in European government circles and by corporate governance bodies (where there was concern about their opacity)"