MOSCOW (Sputnik) — VTB Capital, a subsidiary of the Russian VTB Bank financial services corporation, has been designated to carry out the bond operations, the source said. The bond yield is reportedly set to be between 4.65 and 4.9 percent per year.
The bank may issue the entire $3 billion worth of Eurobonds provided for by Russia's Finance Ministry by the end of the day, a VTB Capital source told the RBC media outlet.
Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated amid the 2014 crisis in Ukraine. The European Union, the United States and their allies have introduced several rounds of anti-Russia sanctions since the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, accusing Moscow of meddling in the Ukrainian conflict. Moscow has repeatedly refuted the allegations.
Russia last borrowed from foreign creditors in September 2013, when $6 billion worth of bonds were issued.