Yukos

Crude oil prices were trading with gains on Feb. 19 as a result of growing supply concern in Libya and with U.S. sanctions on a subsidiary of Russian oil firm Rosneft.

Independent - Roman Abramovich has apparently been caught up in a government crackdown on people applying for investor visas and the Chelsea Football Club owner is unable to enter Britain because his is yet to be renewed.

Cold War allies Moscow and Havana are marking a renaissance in relations as the US cuts ties with Cuba. Russian firms are returning to the Caribbean nation with billion-dollar projects in hand.

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft and Greece's Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries have signed a deal on mutual supplies of crude oil and oil products for the next five years, Rosneft said on Monday.

Chinese conglomerate CEFC will buy a 14.16 percent stake in Russian oil major Rosneft for $9.1 billion from a consortium of Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority, strengthening the energy partnership between Moscow and Beijing.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder hit back at those criticising him for taking a job at a Russian energy company, saying some of his critics wanted to push Germany into a "new Cold War."

The critics include his successor as chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is campaigning to win her fourth term in elections to be held Sept. 24.

Russia has nominated former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the board of its biggest oil producer Rosneft as an independent director, according to a government decree published late on Aug. 11.

The plan to save fuel firm Jetoil, of the Mamidakis group, has survived delays and disagreements, and appears to be back on track, paving the way for entry in the local fuel market of a new player with access to cheap Russian oil.

Rosneft has said it signed a number of agreements with Turkey's leading energy companies on the sidelines of the top level negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 10. 

Rosneft signed an agreement on petroleum product supplies for the period between 2018 and 2020 with Demirören Group, the company said in a statement. 

Rosneft has its eye on Greece's Jet Oil, as the latter's lawyers have cited acquisition interest by Vienna-based Cetracore Energy, in which the Russian oil giant holds a stake, in asking for the postponement of a court hearing connected with Jet Oil seeking protection from its creditors.