Deputy PM: Russian government to discuss privatization plan soon

MOSCOW, Jan 12 (PRIME) -- Russia’s government will soon meet to discuss a privatization plan, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday.

Dmitry Pristanskov, head of the Federal State Property Management Agency, said in December, that the plan was first sent to the government that month and it coordinated the sales of 10.9% in the country’s second largest bank VTB Bank, 25% minus one share in shipping company Sovcomflot, and a stake in Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) for 2017.

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