Russian oil giant Rosneft is expected to continue its efforts to seek additional tax breaks from the government, despite protests from other players that such individual concessions place the state-controlled oil producer in a privileged position and undermine market competition, writes Vladimir Afanasiev.
Powerful Rosneft executive chairman Igor Sechin recently asked President Vladimir Putin to support his request for various tax breaks that would save the company a total annual amount of 145 billion rubles ($2.54
