The Independent Oil and Gas Company, controlled by the former head of Rosneft Eduard Khudainatov, sued RBC for ₽500 million, the amount it estimated as the reputational damage which, in its opinion, the RBC article on transactions between Rosneft and the NOC may have caused. The lawsuit does not provide any substantiation of this amount. The head of the consolidated RBC editorial board, Petr Kanaev, commented on the suit as follows: "We are confident in the accuracy and objectivity of the information we publish".