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...the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promoted him to serve as minister of the gas industry. In this post in 1989 Chernomyrdin converted the Ministry of Gas into a state-owned corporate complex called Gazprom, which was one of the few profitable large-scale enterprises in the declining Soviet economy. Chernomyrdin remained chairman of the board of Gazprom during the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...presidential election campaign, and following Putin’s victory he was named first deputy chief of staff. Later that same year, Medvedev was appointed chairman of the state-owned natural-gas monopoly Gazprom. In 2003 he became Putin’s chief of staff, and two years later he was appointed to the newly created post of first deputy prime minister.
Workers-for-Russian-energy-giant-Gazprom-lay-part-of-theWorkers for Russian energy giant Gazprom lay part of the North European Gas Pipeline in the …[Credits : Kryuchkov Nikita—ITAR-TASS/Landov]
A-worker-adjusts-a-valve-at-a-natural-gas-compressorA worker adjusts a valve at a natural gas compressor station in Opari, Ukraine. A price dispute …[Credits : Baran Alexander—ITAR-TASS/Corbis]
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