Baker is a consultant for the two companies at the commanding heights of the Russian economy, Gazprom and Rosneft. The Kissinger Associates lobbying group, whose Russian section is headed by Graham, feeds in to the Kissinger-Primakov working group, a quasi-private-sector effort, blessed by Putin, to deepen ties between Russia and the United States.
像施罗德一样，这些人在经济利益方面并非没有私心。贝克在占领俄国经济制高点的俄罗斯天然气公司和俄罗斯石油公司担任顾问。而基辛格顾问公司游说团的俄罗斯分部则由格雷厄姆领导，为基辛格－普里马科夫工作组提供服务，这是一股受到普京庇护的准私人力量，以深化俄美两国之间的关系为目标。