MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The sale of a 19.5-percent government stake in Russia's Rosneft oil company needs to conclude by December 15 in the form of a sale to an investor or a buyback, Aide to the Russian President Andrei Belousov said Tuesday.
"We have a government directive to [complete the transaction] by December 15. This will either be an investor or buyback," Belousov told reporters.
He noted that the company had to gather a board of directors and the government had to issue directives ahead of the "very tight deadline."
