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Venezuela will not hand over control of its cash-strapped state oil firm PDVSA to Russian oil giant Rosneft, a close aide to Nicolas Maduro told Russian news agency RIA Novosti, dismissing such reports as false. “No, of course not,” Maduro’s close advisor Diosdado Cabello said, when asked could PDVSA be handed over to Rosneft. Venezuela has good relations with Rosneft and excellent relations with Russia, Cabello said. Vladimir Putin and Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin are Venezuela’s best friends, Cabello said, but…