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September 8th, 2008

AUDIO - Gazprom: Friends in high places

Posted by: Melissa Akin
Tags: Energy, Russian Investment, natural gas, , , , ,

President Dmitry Medvedev is the former chairman of Russia’s state gas export monopoly Gazprom, and the company is viewed as a powerful instrument of the Kremlin’s foreign and domestic policy, but the company’s deputy chief, executive, Alexander Medvedev, says it is not so. 

Even at the height of Russia’s brief war with Georgia over the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, Gazprom was steadily pumping gas to Georgian consumers, Alexander Medvedev said.

 The two Medvedevs are not related, by the way!

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