When Angela Merkel became German chancellor in November 2005, her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, had just landed a big job at Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy giant. At the time, it seemed that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, was rewarding his close friend for pushing through a big energy contract between Gazprom and what was then the Kremlin’s most important ally in the EU.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) on June 27 in Berlin.
