Recognizing the difficulties some European countries face in completely abandoning oil and gas supplies in a short time, a new Russian anti-war committee urges Western democracies to redirect payments for contracted Russian oil and gas supplies to bank accounts in EU member states that are already under sanctions and cannot be used to pay for Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
Ultimately, permissions for how to use these should be determined by the EU member states following consultations with the legitimate government of Ukraine, say the signatories (below). RTWT
Members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia:
- Sergey Aleksashenko, economist
- Evgeny Chichvarkin, entrepreneur
- Konstantin Chumakov, scientist
- Dmitry Gudkov, politician
- Sergei Guriev, economist
- Vladimir Kara-Murza, politician, historian
- Garry Kasparov, politician, 13th world chess champion
Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia- Mikhail Khodorkovsky (right), former political prisoner
- Evgeny Kiselev, journalist
- Eugene Koonin, biologist
- Yulia Latynina, writer, journalist
- Elena Lukyanova, lawyer
- Yuri Pivovarov, historian, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Viktor Shenderovich, writer
- Lyubov Sobol, politician
- Boris Zimin, entrepreneur
