Kremlin aide: we should manage to carry out Rosneft privatisation this year
BOLSHOI KAMEN, Russia, Sept 1 (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 Golubkova; Editing by Alexander Winning)