As you would expect, Gazprom believes that improving their image will be enough to derail any thoughts of looking at their actions.
Unfortunately, they may be right!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Gazprom is in talks with public relations companies over a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at improving the image of the Russian state-controlled gas monopoly in Europe and the US, after it was badly dented by “gas wars” with former Soviet republics.
Dick Cheney, US vice-president, last May accused Russia of using energy as a political weapon after Gazprom briefly cut supplies to neighbouring Ukraine in a dispute over prices. Last month Belarus and Georgia were threatened with similar treatment if they failed to agree to pay much higher prices, which both eventually did.
Gazprom is now talking to a consortium headed by PBN Company, a Washington-based PR firm, and also understood to include Hill & Knowlton, the international public relations firm, and another Washington-based group, according to people familiar with the talks. The negotiations were first reported on Tuesday by Russia’s Kommersant newspaper.
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