Russia should not pay for mistakes by oil pipeline monopoly Transneft from the budget, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday, piling pressure on the state-owned pipeline operator. Anton Siluanov, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, attends a meeting during a session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan May 29, 2019. Its preferred shares were down 0.5% at the opening of trading in Moscow. Five million tonnes of oil were contaminated last month with organic chloride and some of the dirty crude is still stuck in pipelines in Belarus and eastern Europe. The crisis, the largest for the pipeline, built in 1960s, led […]