December 15th, 2005
The Washington Post is rightly outraged by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s decision to become an adviser for Gazprom. During his tenure in Berlin, Schröder was criticized for his chummy relationship with Vladimir Putin and his downplaying the war in Chechnya and Russia’s suppression of human rights. Adds Davids Medienkritik: “The fact that the company is run by a former East German secret police officer who was close to Putin in his KGB years is truly disgusting.”
Not mentioned, though equally disturbing, is Schröder’s decision to serve on the board of both Zorin Industries (a biotech firm) and the Tropigala casino hotel, alongside former Nevada senator Pat Geary.
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