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MOSCOW - For sale in Russia this summer: one repossessed asset, well loved and maintained. Seller is motivated. Everything must go. In this fire sale, the asset is Bashneft, the oil company once owned by Vladimir P. Yevtushenkov, who was prosecuted and put under house arrest. And the seller is the Russian state, in desperate need of cash.

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