U.S. oil and gas company ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) has filed a claim with the Stockholm Arbitration Court looking to change the way the firm is taxed by the Russian government it told the country’s energy ministry on Monday, a spokeswoman for the ministry said Friday. The spokeswoman declined to elaborate on details of the lawsuit, but confirmed a report by Russian daily Vedomosti which said the company was seeking to change the way the taxation clause in the agreement on Sakhalin-1 –an oil and gas project in Russia’s far east in which it holds a 30% stake–is interpreted. ExxonMobil is seeking to be reimbursed for part of the income tax it has overpaid over the past six years, worth $500 million, Vedomosti’s report said. In mid-March Russian daily newspaper Kommersant quoted unnamed sources as saying ExxonMobil wants Russia to return several billions of rubles in taxes which it said […]