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...moment, a Belarusian tripped the Gazprom captain with his stick, but the Russian scrambled back to his feet to pass the puck in a lightning movement that led to a goal. Gazprom won the game 4-3, and the cup. And well it should, smiled the Gazprom captain Alexander Medvedev, 51, because Gazprom always wins...
Those bothered by the sense that Russia was starting to throw its weight around were told to relax. Russia, Medvedev said, wanted to be recognized as a major economic and political power "not by the use of force but by the example of our own behavior and achievements." Any concerns about the way Russia sets about business and politics, Medvedev said, stemmed from "a lack of communication," rather than anything Russia did. But those worried by Russia's use of its energy resources as a political weapon - ask the Ukrainians or Belarusians about that - were granted little comfort. The days...
That was then. In 2007, the Russians were all over Davos once again - Russian politicians thinking ahead to the post-Putin era, and Russian businessmen riding the oil and commodities boom with a look of steely determination. Dmitri Medvedev, Russia 's First Deputy Prime Minister (and a rumored successor to Putin), spoke of Russia as "another country" from the way it had been in 2000, when its economy was marked by low productivity and high inflation...
...While president Bogdanchikov is an oil-industry expert, the chairman of the board is Igor Sechin, Putin's deputy chief of staff. Gazprom, the state company that controls almost 90% of Russian gas production, is similarly tied in to the Kremlin. Its chair of the board is Dmitri Medvedev, the First Deputy Prime Minister, who is widely seen as a possible Putin heir. After its brush with Ukraine, Gazprom is now pushing hard to acquire gas distribution and marketing companies in other countries; last week it acquired the industrial and commercial client base of Britain's privately-owned Pennine Natural...
Moscow often courts thirsty foreign hedge funds with the possibility of making Gazprom public, but the fact remains that it is far from an independent company. In fact, Dmitry Medvedev, a close friend of President Putin and the first deputy prime minister of Russia, chairs the “corporation.” In the last months, this behemoth bought, in a throwback to good ol’ Soviet times, curious assets to “complete its portfolio”: Izvestia, a money-losing newspaper, and NTV, a leading TV network formerly owned by one of Putin?...