OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2014. Sistema JSFC ("Sistema") (LSE: SSA), the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, announces that the acquisition of a 98% stake in OJSC United Petrochemical Company ("UPC") from the Group's subsidiary JSOC Bashneft ("Bashneft") has not been completed. Bashneft retains ownership of UPC.

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