Can Europe sever its dependence on Russian gas?
Date and time:
Sunday 6 March, 2022
15:00 - 16:30
Location:
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
21 Binney Street
London
W1K 5BQ
Can Europe sever its dependence on Russian gas to save Ukraine?
As Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine is becoming increasingly destructive, triggering global alarm over possible nuclear attacks, Western leaders have been looking to end the invasion by adopting broad-sweeping sanctions.
However, they stopped short of punishing Russia’s biggest source of revenue, its oil and gas industry, fearing the measures would backfire against European energy consumers.
Time is now running out to save millions of lives and there is only one question that is becoming increasingly pertinent: Can Europe sever its dependence on Russian gas to save Ukraine and if so how?
Speaker
Dr Aura Sabadus
Dr Aura Sabadus is a senior journalist specialising in the energy markets of Ukraine and neighbouring Black Sea countries. She works for ICIS, a global energy and petrochemicals news and data provider, where she focuses on issues related to energy market liberalisation, regulation, natural gas transit and geopolitical risk. Prior to joining ICIS, Aura worked as a journalist for UK-based mainstream media and has contributed articles and research papers on energy-related topics to international think tanks such as the Atlantic Council and RUSI.
She holds a PhD in International Relations from King’s College London and occasionally teaches courses on energy market liberalisation at the University of Westminster in London.
Speaker
Karina Luchinkina
Karina Luchinkina is a former board member of the company supervising Ukraine’s gas transmission system operator, GTSOU, and has extensive experience in governance risk and compliance in emerging markets.
For the last 18 years she held senior roles at international accountancy firm PWC, working in over 30 countries. She is based in London and works as chief operating officer of sustainable finance technology at ESG data company Arabesque Group. She is British of Ukrainian origin.
Moderator
Svitlana Pyrkalo
Svitlana Pyrkalo is a Ukrainian writer and a permanent panel member on the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year prize. During her 15-year career in print and broadcast journalism, Svitlana worked as a news journalist and radio presenter at the BBC Ukrainian Service in London, wrote regular columns for Ukrainsky Tyzhden, Gazeta po-Ukrainsky, Glavred, Stolichnaya Gazeta and other publications. In the early 2000s, she managed a TV show on 1+1 Channel in Ukraine, worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the first, and only, Ukrainian language fashion magazine, EVA. She is a trustee of the Ukraine Institute London.
