TOKYO - MAY 12: Alexey Miller, President of Gazprom delivers a speech during the Japan- Russia Business Forum at a hotel on May 12, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Putin is on a three day tour to Japan to discuss key issues between Japan and Russia, such as the return of the northern territories and financial cooperation. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

TOKYO - MAY 12: Alexey Miller, President of Gazprom delivers a speech during the Japan- Russia Business Forum at a hotel on May 12, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Putin is on a three day tour to Japan to discuss key issues between Japan and Russia, such as the return of the northern territories and financial cooperation.

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  1. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  2. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  3. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  4. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  5. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, attends a press briefing in the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  6. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, attends a press briefing at the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  7. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, poses after attending a press briefing at the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  8. FILE -- In this Nov. 2006 file photo, officials look at a model of the Gazprom's skyscraper at an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. Governor of Russia's second city of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matviyenko, signed a decree Tuesday allowing the construction of a hulking skyscraper for state energy giant Gazprom in the city's czarist-era center.
  9. FILE -- In this November 2006, file photo, officials look at a model of the Gazprom's skyscraper at an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, Russia's state natural gas giant Gazprom has won approval to build a gargantuan skyscraper in St. Petersburg that critics say will ruin the city's carefully protected skyline. The city council on Tuesday Sept. 22, 2009, approved plans for building the 400-meter (1,300-foot) structure, more than three times taller than St. Peter and Paul Cathedral.
  10. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 7, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev accused Ukraine of seeking changes to a contract for the transit of Russian gas across its territory, the latest row over energy between the two fueding states. Medvedev told the head of state-run Russian gas giant Gazprom that Russia would not accept any move from the Ukrainian authorities to demand advance payment for the transit of Russian gas to European consumers via its soil.
  11. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looks on during a meeting with the chief of Russia's state-run natural gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller, not seen, at the Moscow Kremlin, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.
  12. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets with Gazprom Company Chief Executive Alexei Miller in Moscow's Kremlin September 7, 2009. Medvedev told Miller not to agree with Ukraine to change gas transit fees, Interfax news agency reported on Monday.
  13. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reacts during a meeting with chief of Russian state-run natural gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller, right, at Moscow's Kremlin on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.

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