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In a statement, Rosneft said the British court order was groundless and it was taking all necessary measures to protect its interests.

So it may have been especially satisfying for Mr Medvedev to force Mr Sechin out of his eyrie at Rosneft.

Still, when a chunk of Rosneft comes up for sale, the temptation for them to set all that aside will be strong (see article).

Sources close to the company said Temasek had considered investing several hundred million dollars in Rosneft.

The British energy company BP has again been blocked from proceeding with a proposed joint venture with the Russian company Rosneft.

Rosneft wants to transform itself into a respectable global oil firm, using its relationship with BP as a stepping-stone.

A week later a similar freezing order was imposed by a court in Ireland.

Noises coming out of Moscow suggested that the plan was dead and that Rosneft was seeking a replacement for BP.

As long as he respects Rosneft's interests, anything else Mr Fridman does to get payback from BP will be fine by the Kremlin.

This decision was soon overturned but it gave Yukos Capital a chance to take its case to a Dutch court which also ordered Rosneft to pay up.

After Yukos's dismemberment, we advised investors not to buy Rosneft's shares when it was allowed to list on the London Stock Exchange.

When Rosneft refused, Yukos Capital asked the courts in Britain, Ireland and the state of New York to oblige it.

Yukos's main shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested, Yukos was dismantled and its assets were swallowed by Rosneft.

They put Rosneft into technical default on loans from foreign banks which are secured by sale contracts between Rosneft and its customers.

Earlier this month an English court froze Rosneft's local assets in a case brought by Yukos Capital, an offshore affiliate of Yukos.

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BP's deal may turn out to be a rotten one because of Rosneft's dodgy origins.

In return, it will allow Rosneft to take minority stakes in its deep-water projects in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in Texas.

Rosneft may face lawsuits from assorted Yukos shareholders, something the planned London listing may make easier.

Rosneft executives say their exploration drilling will not stir up radiation.

State- controlled Rosneft, Russia's largest oil concern, will sell the crude to China's top energy group, PetroChina.

The question BP investors want answered is: what do its AAR partners want as compensation for their exclusion from the Rosneft alliance?

A botched attempt at an asset swap and arctic exploration deal with Russia's Rosneft has added to BP's woes.

Remarkably, a commercial arbitration court in Moscow ruled in Yukos's favour, telling Rosneft to repay the loan.

Until recently Russia regarded the Kara Sea, where BP and Rosneft intend to drill, as primarily an icy dump.

To gain access to the Russian Arctic's vast reserves, BP agreed in January to swap shares with Rosneft.

Mr Fridman is fuming that Mr Dudley went behind his back by striking a deal with Rosneft.

He told Kommersant he reported indirectly to Mr Sechin, who also chairs the Rosneft oil company.

When the latest deadline passed, AAR and BP had found common language, but Rosneft was not on board.

OAO Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, said second-quarter profit advanced 60 percent on higher oil prices and output.

The three offshore blocks in the Russian Kara Sea are the same ones that Rosneft planned to explore with BP.

Perhaps Mr Dudley gambled that getting into bed with Rosneft would silence TNK-BP.

Mr Sechin's ousting was widely seen as a blow to siloviki power.

Buying AAR's stake in TNK-BP could cost BP (and Rosneft) $30bn: a stretch, given BP's financial commitments in the US.

Rosneft says it has now received a new proposal from BP.

Today, he's chairman of the board of the oil company Rosneft.

And in Russia, a series of actions resulted in state-owned Rosneft gaining control of reserves held by Yukos.

Its share price, meanwhile, is 6 per cent below its pre-Rosneft announcement, and has underperformed the sector by 10 per cent this year.

This year Rosneft, which added to New York's insecurities by listing in London and Moscow, was trumped by two bigger IPOs in Hong Kong.

But it is the first time that Rosneft has been materially affected by its controversial acquisition of Yukos's assets.

Rosneft, still growing output organically, is the country's biggest producer, 75 per cent controlled by the government.

Rosneft's share price jumped 8% after the announcement.

State-backed oil companies, such as PetroChina and Russia's Rosneft, have bought nearly the same amount.

Rosneft's Sechin, for example, worked as a translator in Angola and Mozambique in the early 1980s.

Mr. Hayward is meeting Monday afternoon with Mr. Sechin, who is also the chairman of Rosneft, Mr. Putin's spokesman said.

As one of Russian business's great survivors, Mr Fridman knows he must not scupper the BP-Rosneft deal;

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