Rosneft purchased tickets for the boxes at Olympic competitions in Sochi worth about 65 million rubles. The Company intends to award tickets to the top employees, as well as to invite foreign partners to the Olympics.

      Particularly, box seat tickets were bought at Bolshoy Ice Dom and Fischt Olympic Stadium. "In order to strengthen and develop business relationships and maintain the image of Russia, delegations of major international companies were invited to visit the Olympic Games in Sochi,” the representative of Rosneft said, adding that the Olympics are not just a sporting event, but a business platform.

      Rosneft is planning to hold several business negotiations during the Games in Sochi. For the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Rosneft’s guests will stay in Sputnik recreational complex in Sochi. Sberbank, Rostelecom, Gazprom and other major Russian companies have Winter Olympic Games tickets as well. Many of them also invited their foreign partners to visit the Olympics.

      Rosneft is the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry, and ranks among the world’s top publicly traded oil and gas companies. The Company is primarily engaged in exploration and production of hydrocarbons, production of petroleum products and petrochemicals, and marketing of outputs. Rosneft has been included in the Russian Government’s List of Strategic Enterprises and Organizations. The state holds 69.50% in the Company (through OJSC ROSNEFTEGAZ), while approximately 10% of shares are in free-float. Rosneft is widely engaged in exploration and production across all key hydrocarbon regions of Russia: Western Siberia, Southern and Central Russia, Timan-Pechora, Eastern Siberia and the Far East. In addition, the Company participates in several exploration projects in Kazakhstan and Algeria. Rosneft’s seven major refineries have convenient locations throughout the country, from the Black Sea coast to the Far East, and the Company’s retail network covers 41 regions of the Russian Federation. Rosneft also owns 50% of Ruhr Oel GmbH which holds stakes in four refineries in Germany.