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Gazprom [8], the Russian gas company that supplies approximately one-quarter of Europe's gas needs, has hired the PR firms Gavin Anderson [9], Ketchum [10] and GPlus to handle "all financial and corporate communications and external relations issues worldwide." PR Week notes that all three firms, which are subsidiaries of the Omnicom [11] group, previously worked for the Kremlin when Vladimir Putin was president of the G8 [12] group of countries. In January, the Moscow newspaper Kommersant reported that Gazprom was negotiating with a consortium comprising the PBN Company, Hill & Knowlton [13] and the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates [14] for a three-year contract worth $11 million.
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[15] http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/674814/Gazprom-hires-agencies-formerly-used-Kremlin/