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Definitely the greatest corporate anthem I have ever heard. Go Gazprom! Don’t bother trying, you’ll never ever find A surer friend than Gazprom We’re giving people warmth and light For office and for home We should always keep in mind From dawn till sun down, That our work is always needed Working day or holiday [...]

I really wish Gazprom would post videos of their press conferences, because it would be rather hilarious to see Sergey Kupriyanov and Alexey Miller shouting their statements to reporters: As of January 7, when Gazprom was forced to cease gas supplies, the transit pipelines in Ukraine were filled with Russian gas. Therefore, the pipeline pressure [...]

Especially when they use exclamation marks! Providing gas for technological needs is the sole responsibility of transiting party! Indeed!

Gazprom and Ukrainians fighting over natural gas contracts again: Russia’s state-owned energy company, Gazprom, will cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine on January 1 unless a new contract is signed, a company spokesman has said. “We would like to avoid such a scenario, we would like to agree on everything before New Year, but as [...]

Well, something good has to come out of this financial crisis, right? From the department of silver linings comes this item from Russia: because of the financial crisis, plans for a controversial skyscraper that would have towered over St. Petersburg’s low-slung Baroque skyline have been delayed and — preservationists, architects and many residents fervently hope [...]

Gazprom’s Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District of Russia Today’s edition of the NYTimes has a good overview of Gazprom, its relationship with the Kremlin, and the challenges the company faces in meeting growing demand for natural gas at both home and abroad. The accompanying photo gallery, “A Quest for Energy in Darkest [...]