28-10-2016 12:28 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Russia to order 19.5 percent Rosneft stake sale next week - source

By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government will order the sale of a 19.5 percent stake in state oil firm Rosneft early next week, a government source told reporters on Friday. The state this month sold a 50.1 percent stake in mid-sized oil firm Bashneft to Rosneft for 330 billion roubles. "In case we don't succeed in time, we will have to simply take the funds from Rosneft.
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