** FILE ** A guard stands at the gates outside Russian natural gas state monopoly Gazprom headquarters in Moscow, July 11, 2000. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is to become chairman of Gazprom's shareholder committee, a post roughly comparable to board chairman, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller's spokesman Sergei Kuprianov said in Russia on Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. (AP Photo/Maxim Marmur)