The Underwater Lobbyist
Source: http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/08/the_underwater_lobbyist.htmPosted on Monday, August 18th, 2008 | In Russia
Contributed by: Robert Amsterdam (http://www.robertamsterdam.com/) -
Former Prime Minister of Finland Paavo Lipponen is now an official employee of the Russian government.
In my previous post on Gerhard Schroeder and the war, I briefly mentioned Gazprom’s hiring of Finland’s former Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen as a “consultant” to Nord Stream (see previous blog post here).
Today Kommersant has an interesting article elaborating exactly what Mr. Lipponen will be working on: the underwater environmental permits for the Nord Stream pipeline to pass through Finnish waters. As Grigory Pasko has reported, this is quite a dicey project, and a response from the Nord Stream PR department to this blog can be read here.
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Finland, Gazprom, Grigory Pasko, Nord Stream, Paavo Lipponen, Russia, Russian Government
Finland, Gazprom, Grigory Pasko, Nord Stream, Paavo Lipponen, Russia, Russian Government
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