“Gazprom – The New Russian Weapon” by Valery Panyushkin and Mikhail Zygar By Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently, the Russian mass media reported that Gazprom head Miller had met with president Putin to report about the current situation in the company Gazprom and about its prospects. The report concerned three hot topics: the fate of the pipelines leading to Europe, the increase in the price for Central Asian gas, and deliveries of the raw material to the republics of the former USSR. For example, Miller told the President that he considers “very timely” the realization of two new gas transport projects – “Nord Stream” and “South Stream”. About the fact that the company Gazprom has problems, the mass media did not report. Which got me thinking: do Russian citizens even find it interesting at all to know something about Gazprom? I came to the conclusion that no, they don’t find it interesting. Because Russians have long ago accustomed themselves to the fact that Gazprom – this is not a Russian company in the sense that its assets and capital belong to all Russians, but rather a private company, belonging to a narrow circle of persons.