Russia says may consider Rosneft, Bashneft stakes sale as 'integrated project'

Russia may consider privatisation of the country's largest oil firm Rosneft and its small rival Bashneft "as an integrated project", First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Saturday in a televised interview. "There is a proposal from the advisers to consider the privatisation of Rosneft and Bashneft in one take, a bit separated by time but in one united project," Shuvalov he told a Rossiya-24 TV news channel.