Job Offer

According to a report in the Scotsman (free reg required), President Putin has offered the jobless Gerhard Schroeder a job in Gazprom:

Gerhard Schröder won't simply retreat into retirement," said Klaus Uwe Benneter, general secretary of Mr Schröder's Social Democrats, commenting on a Russian radio report that said the former chancellor would be invited to become an adviser to the Russian gas monopoly. "He may have more free time, but I am sure he'll remain a political animal."