By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) – British American Tobacco’s options for leaving Russia, where it controls almost a quarter of the market, include transferring the business to its local partner, the maker of Pall Mall and Rothmans cigarettes said on Thursday. The British company’s distributor in Russia, SNS Group of Companies, said in March that the two firms were in advanced talks after Moscow suggested it could nationalise assets of foreign firms that left the country. Chief Marketing Officer Kingsley Wheaton said transferring the business to SNS, which has been working with British American T…