Schröder blamed NATO for the deployment of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border.
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St. Petersburg Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is said to get another job in the Russian gas business. The SPD politician and friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the supervisory board of the state-owned company Gazprom, the energy giant announced on Friday in St. Petersburg.
The Annual General Meeting is therefore planned for June 30th. Schröder is to replace Timur Kulibayev, a son-in-law of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was ousted in the wake of the January riots.
The 77-year-old Schröder is already Chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee of Nord Stream AG and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Nord Stream 2 AG. Both gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea connect Russia and Germany. The former chancellor is also the head of the supervisory board at the Russian state energy company Rosneft.