Gazprom(Russia's gas monop) CEO 'never showed up'

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  sf

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/business/worldbusiness/29RUBL.html

  
  

  Gazprom Chief Calls In Sick, Or Maybe It's a Conspiracy

  By SABRINA TAVERNISE

  OSCOW, June 28 It was an annual meeting for Russian conspiracy theorists.

  Instead of triumphantly conducting the yearly gathering of shareholders of Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, after a year of hard-won successes, the chief executive of the company never showed up.

  The chief, Aleksei Miller, was ill, according to a dryly worded statement handed out today as journalists and shareholders filed into the polished stone-and-glass tower of Gazprom.

  But in a country where illnesses, real or imagined, have often served as a cover for political maneuvering, the announcement raised eyebrows. Some recalled the 1991 coup attempt against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, when plotters announced to a stunned country that he was sick.

  Then there were the plots hatched during genuine sicknesses. Stalin positioned himself to take over as Soviet leader when Lenin was ill, and an ailing Boris Yeltsin was publicly propped up while family and friends ran things behind the scenes.

  For their part, Gazprom executives played down Mr. Miller's absence. "Nothing tragic is happening everything is normal," said Dmitri Medvedev, chairman of Gazprom's board and a close aide to President Vladimir V. Putin. "Concerning internal strife, it doesn't exist."

  Many analysts were not convinced.

  "It's very strange," said Vladislav Metnev, an analyst at the Moscow-based investment bank Renaissance Capital. "The annual meeting is the key event in the life of the company. As the company's face, he should be there. He's under pressure from all sides that's the message."

  When Mr. Putin picked Mr. Miller to run the company last year, Gazprom was being ripped apart by a closed circle of Soviet-era managers. Since then, Mr. Miller has managed to wrest control and regain assets.

  Prominent on the list of assets returning to the company is a 4.8 percent stake in Gazprom itself, worth about $1.1 billion. It had been sold at a huge discount to a company called Stroitransgaz, which had links to the old management. Two gas producers with gas fields worth about 5 percent of Gazprom's reserves have also been reclaimed.

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  Robert, I the did a search asap, as I noticed BUSH was 'inactive' too for 'a time'.

  Where was/ IS Alexei Miller? What was Cheney Doing as PRESIDENT for 2 hours and 16 minutes?

  This is a chat transcript Robert, I (think) you'll find interesting. I sure did:

  http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/sexesx.htm

  I WANTED VERY BADLY TO POST THIS TRANSCRIPT HERE. I TRIED THREE TIMES. IT WON'T POST. I GET AN 'ERROR'.

  Could you? Please.

  Thank you, sKally
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  sf

  10/12/01 CORESEARCHERX strikes again

  Rumor Mill News

  CORESEARCHERX: Kent, Remember that midnight rant we had a while back re: Unocal?

  CORESEARCHERX: Well guess what?

  CORESEARCHERX: Now new Anthrax case in NY at NBC

  CORESEARCHERX: Well Remember where Unocal NY offices located?

  CORESEARCHERX: Unocal 30 Rockefeller Plz # 4530

  New York, NY 10112-4597

  Phone: (212)582-2520

  CORESEARCHERX: NOW guess where NBC is located?

  CORESEARCHERX: NBC 30 Rockefeller Plz Fl 2

  New York, NY 10112-0036

  Phone: (212)314-7100

  CORESEARCHERX: COINCIDENCE?????

  9/25/01 RANT

  BARDSQUILL: jeeezuz o'christ, figured out what is causing WWIII CORESEARCHERX: hey...me and ANON here been waiting for ya! CORESEARCHERX: So what is causing WWIII? BARDSQUILL: this is gonna get me in trouble CORESEARCHERX: so what ELSE is new????? BARDSQUILL: okay, a huge consortium including US, Saudis, Japan, Koreans, Russians have been heavily invested in a gasline project, the main pipeline running through Taliban land, and.......... BARDSQUILL: but now the Turkmen pipeline project has been on hold, why? CORESEARCHERX: Because of Taliban.......can't get funding... BARDSQUILL: because the biggest investor, a company called UNOCAL.... CORESEARCHERX: yesssss BARDSQUILL: with an investment of 56% BARDSQUILL: who by the way is involved bigtime in projects off Texas in the Gulf....... CORESEARCHERX: right..go on....did you connect you know who finally?? BARDSQUILL: well anyways UNOCAL was training and commissioning the Taliban to build the pipeline, seeeeeeeeeeee CORESEARCHERX: ok.....go on

  BARDSQUILL: but they left with their investments causing the others in the consortium holding the bag and........ BARDSQUILL: here is why UNOCAL left... BARDSQUILL: The CentGas consortium was cancelled after UNOCAL, the biggest shareholder in the project pulled out due to
  the public pressure. CORESEARCHERX: "public pressure"????? BARDSQUILL: The Feminist women groups in the United States alleged that UNOCAL was helping the
  Taliban regime that has been ruthlessly killing the minorities in the Afghanistan, and have barred women from every facet of life. The mounting public pressure forced UNOCAL to withdraw CORESEARCHERX: OK...GOT you so far BARDSQUILL: So here we have pissed off Saudis, Japanese, Russians, Turks, Pakistanis all with failed investments CORESEARCHERX: and..it was the WOMEN who did it BARDSQUILL: did I say that, noooooo CORESEARCHERX: mysoginist..... BARDSQUILL: but anyways.... CORESEARCHERX: go ahead...

  BARDSQUILL: one of those other investors, or SOMEBODY, has a big interest in getting the Taliban either controlled or outta there. BARDSQUILL: but it is of course over money and not, ummmm, the old BATTLE OF THE SEXES! Whew, saved. CORESEARCHERX: whew... CORESEARCHERX: did you see this new statement on unocal page? CORESEARCHERX: Unocal has received inquiries about a previously proposed pipeline that, if built, would have crossed a part of Afghanistan. We withdrew from that project in 1998, and do not now have - nor plan to have - any projects
  in that country. We do not support the Taliban in any way whatsoever BARDSQUILL: I mean WWIII couldn't be caused by the battle of the sexes COULD IT? CORESEARCHERX: welllllll.......sex, oil and heroin perhaps..... CORESEARCHERX: Updated Sept. 14, 2001: Unocal reiterates prior statements CORESEARCHERX: http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/98news/centgas.htm

  BARDSQUILL: I mean I wouldn't dare do a giant headline. THE END OF THE WORLD CAUSED BY THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES, would I, be called a mysogo right and left, that'd be bad CORESEARCHERX: ROFLMAO CORESEARCHERX: Well........but it wouldn't be possible for that to happen IF there wasn't oil and heroin there as well......so....it's SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL CORESEARCHERX: come and listen to a story 'bout a brother named jeb........ BARDSQUILL: dang consortiums any, there's our dum SECRET GOV, these losers, freakin CENTGAS, kinda like that term CORESEARCHERX: well screw em...we got friends in HIGH places!!!!! BARDSQUILL: I'll betya a buck-fifty that either the ROGUE Japanese, ROGUE Ruskies or the ROGUE Koreans provided the tech to blow the WTC!!! BARDSQUILL: ROGUE Saudis and ROGUE Pakistanis bankrolled the deal CORESEARCHERX: I was talking about the angels of the sun.... BARDSQUILL: And here we are traipsing over to kill bin Laden CORESEARCHERX: Oh...nah...was a woman with PMS!!!!! BARDSQUILL: angels? CORESEARCHERX: angels...yeah our cosmic helpers.......... CORESEARCHERX: Hey...where are all your pesky angel emailers in all this?????

  BARDSQUILL: must be, sun is pissed off and angels hangin out there day-before CORESEARCHERX: right...what I mean...... CORESEARCHERX: If things get TOO dark here....will have help from above..........remember.........even the Bible says that God will not allow us to destroy earth... CORESEARCHERX: totally that is... CORESEARCHERX: you know has something to do with that "vengence is mine" @$%& BARDSQUILL: yea, get it now, ol Sol gonna fry all our sex organs to stop the world from blowing up CORESEARCHERX: OH NO..NOT THAT!!!! HEY BARDSQUILL: we will all be ITS BARDSQUILL:hey aren't angels ITS too? CORESEARCHERX:MUTANTS............jeesh......if we didn't have sex....@$%&..no one give a @$%& about anyone else... CORESEARCHERX: Welll....I never looked under an angels "wings" to find out! BARDSQUILL: good thing I figure stuff out good CORESEARCHERX: but..I don't think they would fry the sex organs...just make us sterile CORESEARCHERX: Yeah..you the master BARDSQUILL: naw they's have to all fall off, better drama CORESEARCHERX: well......maybe men would have something to fall off...us women be fine BARDSQUILL: gulp

  (OPEN THE LINK FOR ENTIRE TRASCRIPT...IT IS LONG: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/sexesx.htm )

  (I may opt to continue the paste tomorrow...good night for now...after midight here ['midnight rain']
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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  my husband was just there last week. he stayed at the morozovlca, which is a mansion owned by gazprom, so that's how i heard of it. the mansion was originally built for lenin's (or stalin, i can't remember what he said) summer home. it's really quite elegant. he brought back a brochure about it, but it's all in russian.

  small world...