Kremlin aide: we should manage to carry out Rosneft privatisation this year

BOLSHOI KAMEN, Russia (Reuters) - The Russian government should manage to privatise a 19.5 percent stake in oil producer Rosneft this year, Andrei Belousov, a Kremlin economic aide, told reporters on Thursday. Russia plans to sell the Rosneft stake as a part of a wider privatisation programme aimed at helping bridge a budget gap. The programme has suffered setbacks as the government postponed the sale of another oil producer, Bashneft . (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Katya Golubkov