Gazprom Parties Hard, But Disappoints
It sounds like it was quite the bash: 6,000 people attending performances by Tina Turner, Deep Purple, and Alla Pugacheva (who managed to get both Dmitri Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov to get up and dance in front of the stage) to help Gazprom celebrate its 15th birthday. President Vladimir Putin was so happy with the party that he even extended the deadline to the Ukraine over the debt dispute, but then promised to aim nuclear missiles at Kiev if they joined NATO. But some are less than impressed by the imported celebrities, balloons, and big promises: