ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 17 (Reuters) - Russian oilproducer Rosneft plans to export around 40 percent of all itscrude oil exports to Asia by 2019, the company's CEO, IgorSechin, said on Wednesday.
Moscow has boosted ties with Asia since the West imposedsanctions on Russia last year over its role in the Ukrainecrisis. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Katya Golubkova, writingby Elizabeth Piper, editing by Katya Golubkova)