Russia’s Rosneft Cancels Order for $260 Teaspoons Amid Navalny Row

</p> <p>A subsidiary of Russian oil giant<br /> Rosneft has canceled an order for luxury tableware amid a public row with<br /> Russian anti-corruption campaigner and politician Alexei Navalny. </p> <p><span>RN-Aerokraft, a private company which operates aircraft<br /> for Rosneft, had planned to buy dishes, cutlery and tablecloths worth $88,867 to furnish an executive jet.</span></p><div class="ehfgt67c0218065427" > <div id="yandex_rtb_R-A-749142-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function(w, d, n, s, t) { w[n] = w[n] || []; w[n].push(function() { Ya.Context.AdvManager.render({ blockId: "R-A-749142-1", renderTo: "yandex_rtb_R-A-749142-1", async: true }); }); t = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s = d.createElement("script"); s.type = "text/javascript"; s.src = "//an.yandex.ru/system/context.js"; s.async = true; t.parentNode.insertBefore(s, t); })(this, this.document, "yandexContextAsyncCallbacks"); </script></div><style type="text/css"> @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .ehfgt67c0218065427 { display: block; 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