[GarySpFc]

The article fails to mention the company was started with the help of a SWEDISH investor.

The privately owned, 280,000-barrel-per-day oil producer was created by company president Mikhail Gutseriyev with the help of Swiss-based oil trader Glencore in 2003 and has been actively buying oil producing and refining assets since then.

[Lukasz]

Doesn't matter who is minority shareholder but who runs the business.

[x5452]

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