Putin Aims to Break Gazprom’s Monopoly on Russian Gas Exports

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The days are numbered for Gazprom’s mo-nopoly on Russian gas exports, analysts say.Speaking at Energy Intelligence’s Oil &Money conference in London this week,Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Moscow-based investment bank Troika Dialog, said:“Russia is close to breaking Gazprom’s mo-nopoly on gas export. Stock market in-vestors are speculating that it will comesoon; they are speculating that Novatek[Russia’s leading independent gas producer]will get an export license into Europe.”