London, 19 January 2015 — Moody's Investors Service has today taken rating actions on three Russian financial institutions — namely Sberbank, Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending OJSC and Vnesheconombank.
These actions follow the weakening of Russia's credit profile, as reflected by Moody's downgrade of Russia's government bond rating to Baa3 from Baa2 on the 16th of January, 2015 and placing it on review for further downgrade. For additional information, please refer to the related announcement: https://www.moodys.com/research/--PR_316487