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Schroeder Wins Court Order On Gazprom Job
April 03, 2006
Gerhard Schroeder at a press conference at Gazprom headquarters on March 30 (epa)
The Hamburg state court today upheld an order forbidding Guido Westerwelle from suggesting publicly that Schroeder used his position as chancellor to win a job with Russia's state gas monopoly, Gazprom.
Schroeder left office in November, but has faced heavy criticism for accepting a job to head the Gazprom-led consortium with its $300,000 annual salary.
(AP)