STOP Russian Energy imports!
Continuously financing the aggressor through fossil fuel purchases, while he is destroying an entire country, cannot be justified any longer, neither ethically, politically, legally, economically, nor in any other reasonable way.
Energy imports from Russia must stop – knowing that this will entail costs and require some sacrifices on our part.
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For a better future: Create a peaceful and sustainable EU. Now!
Prof. Dr. Frank Görgen teaches Marketing at the Wiesbaden Business School, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.
Russia must not be allowed to participate in the international energy resources trade
Borys Soloviov is a PhD student in Law at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.
Stop the war criminals! Putin understanders finally wake up!
Prof. em. Dr. iur. Bernd Richter was Professor of Corporate and Capital Market Law at RheinMain University.
Play fair game
Alex Chikovani, is a Brand Strategist and the founder of LIVE Branding LLC, Tbilisi, Georgia. As an Associate Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, he teaches strategic branding since 2007.
Europe must win this war!
Łukas Piątek, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
Immediate Boycott of Russian Oil and Gas Imports Is Essential to Protecting Children in Ukraine
Alexandra Dufresne, J.D. (Chicago), B.A. (Yale), is a senior lecturer and the director of the International NGO Law and Policy Project (INLPP) at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland. Alexandra is a lawyer for children and refugees. She taught Children's Law and Policy at Yale College and currently teaches Children's Rights at the University of Zurich Faculty of Law.
Stop funding the war or risk a global food crisis
Prof. Dr. Serhii Arefiev is an economist and professor at the National Aviation University in Kiev.
You can’t let the bully win in Ukraine – or you’re next!
Agnes Zumthor, MA in Language Acquisition, is a lecturer at ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur/Switzerland.
War cannot be waged in a more inhumane way
Prof. em. Dr. iur. Klaus Slapnicar co-founded business law as a field of study and taught it for many years, most recently at Schmalkalden University. He was spokesman of the Association of University Teachers of Business Law for over 20 years and a personal member of the Business Law University Association (Wirtschaftsjuristische Hochschulvereinigung, WHV).
Stop funding terrorism and war crimes
Prof. Dr. Lidiia Moskvych holds the Chair of Procedural Law at Kharkiv University.
A fossil fuel embargo is needed – and Europe can afford it
Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris and former Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
I have already seen this in my country, now I see it in Ukraine, who will be next?
Shalva (Tato) Makhashvili holds a Master’s degree in journalism. He is a manager and web-designer at Solostudio in Tbilisi, Georgia.
An embargo is the right policy instrument
Magdalena Züllig, MLaw, is a scientific collaborator at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Where is Churchill?
Dr. Julian Ries is Senior Partner in the Munich office of the Ukrainian Law firm Integrites.
What will we tell our grandchildren?
Prof. Dr Britta Kuhn teaches Economics/International Economics at the Wiesbaden Business School of RheinMain University.
Please stop funding killing machines!
Prof. Dr Tetiana Vilchyk holds the Chair of Lawyers' Law at the Law University named Yaroslav the Wise in Kharkiv.
Wars of aggression must be ruinous for the aggressor
Stefan Schäfer, Prof. Dr., teaches economics, in particular macroeconomics, at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany
Geopolitical imperatives versus short-term economic interests
Andrzej Truty, Prof. Dr. habil. Ing., is a professor at the Institute of Geotechnics and Strength of Materials at Cracow University of Technology (Poland).
Wars of aggression and war crimes must come at a high price
Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines is head of the Dept. of Politics and Economics at the Research Centre for East European Studies and Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bremen.
Stop funding the aggressors, we will do the rest
Galyna Nesterenko, doctor of philosophical sciences, professor of innovations and informational activity in education (Kyiv, Ukraine)
There is no hiding from the fact that we are helping to fund this war
Max Weber, BA Economics, MA Corporate Finance, MBA Global Marketing, is a lecturer at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He has prior management consulting and business development background with international organizations in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Let’s prevent history from repeating itself
Lenka Ulzega, PhD in English Linguistics, is a senior lecturer at ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur/Switzerland.
Sending a signal that Putin understands
Michael Hakenberg, Prof. Dr. iur., was Professor of Business Law at Trier University of Applied Sciences.
Ein Weckruf: den Realitäten in die Augen sehen!
Michael Buchser, Dr. iur., LL.M, ist Dozent für Wirtschaftsrecht an der ZHAW, Winterthur/Schweiz, und Verfasser zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Publikationen.
From a risk management perspective: Is it reasonable to continue funding the aggressor?
Carlo Pugnetti, Ph.D. (Stanford), is a senior lecturer and researcher at ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur/Switzerland, and the author of numerous scientific publications. He also served and is serving in several executive and non-executive positions at board and CEO level.
Neutrality entails no obligation to be indifferent in the face of clear violations of international law
Hans-Jakob Mosimann, Dr. iur. (Zürich), M.A. Political Science (Virginia), was a judge at the Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich from 1997 to 2021, which he presided three times for two years respectively. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and has also been a lecturer for constitutional and administrative law at the ZHAW, Winterthur/Switzerland, since 2004.
Responsibility to Protect – boycott Russian gas and oil immediately
Patrice Martin Zumsteg, Dr. iur., attorney at law, is a lecturer and researcher at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur/Switzerland, in the field of public law with a focus on fundamental rights. He coaches the ZHAW team in the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (Helga Pedersen Moot). A research fellowship brought him to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg/Germany.
Correcting the mistakes of the past rather than perpetuating them
Peter Münch, Prof. Dr. iur., is a professor at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur/Switzerland, where he teaches business law, international law and comparative law. peter.muench@STOPfinancingtheaggressor.org
“Change through trade” failed – time for a course correction
Prof. Dr. Rainer Wedde teaches business law at the Wiesbaden Business School of the RhineMain University of Applied Sciences. He received his PhD on a topic of Eastern law and worked as a lawyer for several international law firms, among others in Moscow. He is a member of the board of the German-Ukrainian Lawyers Association and co-spokesman of the DGO's Law Section. Contact: rainer.wedde@STOPfinancingtheaggressor.org