Gazprom looks to the world stage

From FT:

“By merging natural gas monopoly Gazprom and Rosneft, the last Russian state-owned oil company, the Moscow government has created the country’s most powerful energy group – giving the Kremlin a powerful lever in dealing with a core economic sector.”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/91d927e4-0b6b-11d9-b403-00000e2511c8.html