Former Rosneft Exec Kalanda joins Russia's Transneft

A former senior manager at Russia's biggest oil producer Rosneft, Larisa Kalanda, has joined state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft as vice-president, Transneft said on Wednesday.

Kalanda, born in 1964, will oversee legal matters at Transneft and will be in charge of government relations, Transneft said in a statement.

Kalanda, who was seen as a close ally of Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin, has worked for around a decade at Rosneft, leaving the post of Rosneft vice-president in May.

A Transneft spokesman said Kalanda will replace vice-president Mikhail Barkov.
 

(Reporting by Katya Golubkova and Vladimir Soldatkin)