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Vladimir Putin took part, via videoconference, in the ceremony for commissining the Vostok Oil project – a new oil and gas province. Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin briefed the President on the project’s implementation, joining the ceremony from the Bukhta Sever port, the world’s northernmost port (Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Territory), via video link. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak also made some comments. During the event, the President gave the go-ahead for the first crude oil loading into the Arctic tanker Valentin Pikul.