Anastasiya Shapochkina - Are Energy Sanctions Effective at Blunting Russian War Machine and Economy?

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Russia used energy as an economic weapon against Ukraine in 2007. But it  seems that it has now fully played the gas and oil cards, and Russia is  losing the energy war. Has Vladimir Putin’s winter gas attack  backfired, as Moscow has been frozen out of lucrative European energy  markets? Or will the terroristic threats against nuclear facilities  re-emerge if Russia starts to lose badly on the battlefield?  

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SPEAKER: Anastasiya Shapochkina is Founder and president of Eastern Circles, she  has 11 years of experience in consulting and energy industry, where she  worked on companies, technologies and market analysis in the renewable  energy, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She led development  of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these  subjects and represented business in European industrial and research  associations. Anastasiya is a lecturer on geopolitics in Sciences Po  Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in the EU-Russia  relations. Anastasiya is author of articles on the geopolitics and  geoeconomics in the Former Soviet Union, she has regular TV and radio  appearances. Anastasiya graduated from Georgetown University School of  Foreign Service, German, and European Studies Program.