State-owned oil major Rosneft has requested more than 2 trillion rubles from one of Russia's oil-revenue-funded, rainy-day reserves to help it weather Western sanctions, Finance Minster Anton Siluanov told news agency RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (2nd R) visits a refinery of Russian oil giant Rosneft in the Black Sea port of Tuapse in southern Russia, on Oct. 11, 2013.
