"Rosneft" asks 400 billion roubles for the reconstruction of the "Zvezda" shipyard.

"Rosneft" had asked the government 400 billion roubles from the National Welfare Fund for the reconstruction of the Far Eastern shipyard "Zvezda", the source in the United Shipbuilding Company told RBC. This information was confirmed by a source in "Rosneft", stating that the amount of "similar to the truth".

In August 2013 Igor Sechin offered the oil company to pass the protracted project of "Zvezda" modernization. Vladimir Putin supported this idea, but stated that USC should have remained in the draft as a junior partner. At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, which took place on November 13 in Vladivostok, it was decided that "Rosneft" is engaged in a project on its own, including the search for sources of financing, the official of the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade states.