“Financially the deal will be closed soon,” German Gref, chief executive officer of state-controlled Sberbank, the country’s biggest lender, said after signing a preliminary agreement on the Taas Yuriakh oil venture today in Moscow with Eduard Khudainato

* To reimburse investors who lost money in bank float * Populist move ahead of presidential election MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sought on Thursday to win the support of small investors for his bid to return to the Kre

The investment climate in Russia will definitely change after the presidential elections in March, suggests Sberbank Chief German Gref. We are in 120th place worldwide for investment attractiv

Russia’s largest state-owned bank Sberbank saw its return on equity soar to 27-28 percent last year, Sberbank CEO German Gref said on Thursday. “You can find just one or two such places in the world where you can get such returns on equity,” Gref said at

(The following statement was released by the rating agency) -- Russia's largest bank, the state savings bank Sberbank, has acquired 100% of the Troika Dialog group of brokerage and investment banking companies.

At a breakfast Friday hosted by Sberbank, Russia’s present and past policymakers slammed the Russian investment climate for an hour and a half in front of foreign investors. The rank of critics included former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, First Deputy