They don’t want to work - “sanctions”: How large Russian banks behave in Crimea
Russian banks, reluctant to operate in Crimea and fearing Western sanctions, are eager to send their employees to the peninsula. Political strategist Vartan Tabakyan posted a photo of travel agency representatives greeting a group of employees of VTB, one of Russia's largest banks, on his blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Simferopol. Airport. They don’t want to work, there are sanctions, but what about rest? Why not? Moreover, judging by the list, there is a considerable horde of them,” writes Tabakyan.
Earlier, VTB head Andrei Kostin said that the bank would not enter the peninsula market in order to avoid falling under Western sanctions: “Today the banking sector operates quite adequately in Crimea. Those banks that are there are quite capable of providing the population with both the Mir card and lending. There is no need for another hundred banks to enter the Crimean market.”
Crimean media, at the same time, reported that VTB owned the boarding house. Terletsky in the southern coastal town of Foros. This establishment has no website, no reviews from visitors, and entry is closed to outsiders.
The situation is similar with another large Russian financial institution - Sberbank - it owns the Crimean hotel Mriya Resort & Spa, which was awarded last year the title of the best resort complex in the world. At the same time, the bank itself refused to open its branches in Crimea under the pretext of sanctions.
The day before it also became known that tickets for the new high-speed ship “Kometa”, plying between Yalta and Sevastopol, can now be bought online. The financial partner of the service is the Russian Internet bank Tinkoff, which does not serve clients in the peninsula and refuses to send cards to residents of the republic.
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