The Russian company Gazprom has announced that it is to buy a controlling stake in the Moscow-based electricity distributor Mosenergo, for the sum of $2.1 billion. The gas monopoly, which already owns 19.87% of the group, has announced its intentions of buying all of the 11.5 billion new shares issued by Mosenergo. This issuing comes in the framework of the dismantling of the monopoly on the electricity market operated by the company UES, which is obliged to give up control of its...