Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service approved of the petition placed by OOO KN Estate (based in Moscow and dealing in property rentals) for purchasing 31.3% of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s voting shares, which, combined with the voting shares the company had bought earlier, would result in a 51.29% shareholding in the bank, the FAS’s website reports.

Incidentally, the decision as to on which terms Khanty-Mansiysky Bank (currently the property of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region Yugra) is to be privatized will be taken in the nearest future.