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🎯VTB to sell one of Russia's biggest grain traders, Demetra-Holding. Asked if buyer could be Chinese, Kostin said: "Why China? We have lots of friends, more than 100 countries did not support the anti-Russian sanctions, so we will choose one of them."
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