LONDON -- Russian oil giant OAO Rosneft is devising a legal strategy to fight Western sanctions in European courts, according to people familiar with the strategy -- a tactic modeled on the so-far successful legal campaign waged by Iran's Bank Mellat.
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In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, Rosneft's banner flies next to a church in Moscow, Russia.