Dr. Frank Umbach: Russia’s strategy to evade Western energy sanctions in Geopolitical Intelligence Services
The more Russia decouples from the globalized system, the more it will try to evade Western sanctions by relying on illicit, unconventional and opaque trading schemes. Already during previous decades, Moscow falsified and cherry-picked economic, energy and climate-related data – often unchallenged by Western governments. Now these figures will become even less transparent, more dubious or will be classified as state secrets. Still, it is also becoming evident that sanctions alone will not stop President Putin’s aggression.
Dr. Umbach: Security, vulnerabilities and protection of critical infrastructures as well as power supply security.
The Chancellor's Power Word - Interview with Frank Umbach, Energy Expert
Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder im Gespräch mit Phoenix am 24.10.22 zum Wiederaufbau in der Ukraine
Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder in conversation with Phoenix on 24.10.22 on reconstruction in Ukraine, the ''new Marshall Plan'' and the 5th German-Ukrainian Economic Forum.
Dr. Frank Umbach zur Energieversorgung und Sicherheit kritischer Infrastruktur im Phoenix-Interview am 20.10.22
Dr Frank Umbach talks about the current situation in Ukraine and energy supply in times of war. He also comments on the partial sale of the Port of Hamburg to a Chinese state-owned company and explains why ports are also part of Germany's critical infrastructure.
„Wir hätten schon vor Monaten Brennstäbe bestellen müssen“: Dr. Frank Umbach in an interview at Welt
"We should have ordered fuel rods months ago": Dr Frank Umbach in an interview at Welt on the debate about nuclear power on 18.10.2022. "Every power plant more makes sense," says energy security expert Frank Umbach. However, nuclear power plants have the added advantage of being the best protected against possible physical attacks or cyber attacks.