Issue of Rosneft’s privatization in 2016 is still in the agenda – deputy Minister of Finance Moiseev

​The issue of Rosneft’s privatization in 2016 is still in the agenda, the deputy Minister of Finance, A. Moiseev, said.

Sovkomflot is the company to be privatized at first, we hope so. We have another few interesting packages. The issue of Rosneft is still in the agenda, he said.

Today the Minister of Finance, A. Siluanov, said that the agency intends to make 1 trln roubles on the privatization within 2 years.

The President Putin in December 2015 admitted that in 2016 the Government might privatize the packages of large state companies. He mentioned Rosneft and Aeroflot among them.

According to Rosimuschestvo, in 2015 the Government made 5-5.3 bln roubles on the privatization, the forecast for 2016 -33.2 bln roubles. According to the Ministry of Finance, only on Rosneft’s privatization it is possible to make at least 500 bln roubles.

The privatization of the package of shares of Sovkomflot is planned for 2016. The Government might make about 12 bln roubles on its sale. The agency is ready to accelerate the privatization of Rosneft, Aeroflot and RusHydro, if the President orders.