Not long ago, Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom was among the world’s largest companies in terms of market capitalization, and as it grew so did the perception—fervently denied by company executives—that it was an arm of the Kremlin and that its goals were as much geopolitical as commercial. NEWSWEEK’s Michael Freedman met recently with Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom’s deputy chief …

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