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Austria ex-finance minister advising Gazprom
By EUobserver
Hans Jorg Schelling, Austria's former finance minister, is doing consultancy work for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project according to the Austrian regional newspaper, Oberosterreichische Nachrichten. The controversial pipeline is being laid by the Russian-state gas giant Gazprom but has generated backlash among international observers given how the Kremlin uses energy supplies to leverage political and strategic concessions.