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LONDON - Under pressure from the British government, the LetterOne Group, an investment vehicle led by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, said on Oct. 11 that it had sold oil and natural gas assets in the British North Sea to Ineos, a Switzerland-based petrochemical company with no previous experience operating oil and gas fie

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