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The Gas Weapon

The Gas Weapon

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 18, 2014

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Gasvapnet

Production Companies

Dixit International

Director

Alex Shiriaieff

Description

Analysis of the impact of natural gas - more specifically, the Ukrainian and European dependence on Russian gas - on European politics in the wake of Euromaidan. Featuring interviews with high-level government officials, journalists and industry analysts from several countries, the film argues that a generation after its break from the USSR, Ukraine is independent in name only. To bring the country to its knees, all Russia has to do to is turn off the gas, as it did briefly in the winters of 2005 and 2009.