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President Vladimir Putin met with Klement Tennis, director of German Football Club Schalke-04, and Sergei Fursenko, head of Lentransgaz and president of St Petersburg Football Club Zenit

October 11, 2006, Dresden

Mr Putin said that Russia and Germany have a high level of sporting contacts and expressed the hope that Gazprom’s sponsorship of football clubs Schalke-04 and Zenit would benefit both teams and boost their results.

Mr Fursenko, the head of Gazprom subdivision Lentransgaz, said that the cooperation contract the company has signed with Schalke-04 is a sponsorship deal.

October 11, 2006, Dresden