Putin hails 'pragmatism and common sense' as he launches US-Russian oil project in Kara Sea, which has Saudi-scale potential.
Memorandum signed on Bazhenov field between Russia's second largest oil producer and the French giant.
Futuristic Khanty-Mansiysk gives a new image to Siberia ahead of shale revolution.
BP 'welcomed' the interest from the state company in its holding in Russia's third largest oil producer.
Russian officials refused to allow the vessel to enter the Northern Sea Route which Greenpeace dubbed 'a thinly veiled attempt to stifle peaceful protest'.