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Economic Blockade

in the campaign “Gas Wars and Energy Blackmail (2006–2009)”

Direct energy blackmail and the cut-off of gas supplies at the height of winter: on January 1, 2006 - "at 10.00am Moscow time on January 1, 2006, Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine"[1]; 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"[2].

ID: C0097.T0108
Technique:  Economic Blockade
Campaign:  Gas Wars and Energy Blackmail (2006–2009)
Start: January 2006
End: January 2009
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

References

  1. Stern J. The Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis of January 2006. 2006. – Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
  1. Stern J., Pirani S., Yafimava K. The Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute of January 2009. 2009. – Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.