The European Union is trying to limit OAO Gazprom's (GAZP.RS) access to its natural gas markets due to misguided fears, Russian reformist Anatoly Chubais tells Wednesday's Financial Times.
Chublais tells the paper the E.U. uses terms like "unbundling" the ownership of production and distribution assets as "cover for its concerns about Gazprom."
Chublais, the man behind Russia's privatization program in the 1990s and a strident critic of Gazprom, also says a broader international move toward state intervention in oil and gas markets are a "dead end."