VTB Bank (public joint-stock company) (LSE:VTBR) may sell its 13% stake in Public Joint-Stock Company Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro (MISX:HYDR) before March 2025, although no active negotiations are going on, VTB Chief Executive Officer Andrei Kostin told reporters on September 2, 2021 on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF). Kostin also said that VTB was in negotiations with several Russian private chains of medical clinics on acquisition of a minority stake. “Medicine is a hot topic now, everyone expects explosive growth, including in the digital systems. We see that private clinics are active and developing, and we are actually in negotiations with several clinic chains, which asked me not to name them," he said, adding that the bank would draft plans for the sector until the end of 2021.

“But we are not discussing a controlling stake, it is more about minority ownership. In the future, IPOs (initial public offerings) of these chains are possible".