Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (R) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov stands before a meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid November 12 , 2008. Zhukov was quoted earlier in the day saying that Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom is considering taking a 20% stake in Spanish oil major Repsol, which is offered for sale by Spanish builder Sacyr Vallehermoso. Reuters Pictures 12 months ago

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (R) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov stands before a meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid November 12 , 2008. Zhukov was quoted earlier in the day saying that Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom is considering taking a 20% stake in Spanish oil major Repsol, which is offered for sale by Spanish builder Sacyr Vallehermoso.

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  6. A member of anty-poverty group Oxfam wearing a mask of Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero gives the thumb up while moving paper money from an aid money box to a climate money box on November 5, 2009, in Barcelona. Some 180 countries hold climate talks during the Barcelona Climate Change Talks before December's Copenhagen conference tasked with tackling the threat of global warming.
  7. A member of anty-poverty group Oxfam wearing a masks of Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero gestures before moving paper money from an aid money box to a climate money box on November 5, 2009, in Barcelona. Some 180 countries hold climate talks during the Barcelona Climate Change Talks before December's Copenhagen conference tasked with tackling the threat of global warming.
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  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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