In the Grip of Gazprom
Documentary|
History|
TV Movie|
8/10
The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.
Alexander Scheer
Jürgen Hambrecht
Wolfgang Ischinger
Radoslaw Sikorski
Andriy Kobolyev
Angela Stent
Martin Schulz
David L. Goldwin
Matthias Warnig
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Frank Umbach
Jonathan Stern
Alexey Venediktov
Richard Anderson
Daniel Yergin
Don Carlos
Guy Chazan
Bill Browder
Simon Chadwick
Heather Conlay
Benjamin Schmitt
Jens Høvsgaard
Suriya Jayanti
Владимир Путин
Gerhard Schröder
Alexey Miller
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Анна Политковская
Alexander Litvinenko
Михаил Саакашвили
Leonid Kravchuk
Віктор Ющенко
Sergey Kupriyanov
Alexander Medvedev
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Friedrich Späth
Martin Bartenstein
Hillary Clinton
Faisal Islam
Thomas Reed
Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen
Zhanna Nemtsova
Ronald Reagan
Angela Merkel
Дмитрий Медведев
Helmut Kohl
Борис Ельцин
Konrad Adenauer
Willy Brandt
Helmut Schmidt
John F. Kennedy
Михаил Горбачёв
Никита Хрущёв
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
George W. Bush
John McCain
Condoleezza Rice
Göran Persson
Paavo Lipponen
Lech Wałęsa
Viktor Yanukovych
Michael Glos
Wulf-Hinrich Bernotat
Hans Friderichs
Dmytro Firtash
Valentin Falin
William J. Casey
Burckhard Bergmann
