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Sberbank / MiscellaneousSberbank: Sberbank signed contract about sale of Slovak subsidiary 17-Dec-2015 / 10:32 CET/CESTDissemination of a Regulatory Announcement, transmitted by EquityStory.RS,LLC - a company of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sberbank signed contract about sale of Slovak subsidiary December 17, 2015, Moscow - Sberbank Europe AG, a subsidiary of theSberbank Group, has today signed an agreement for the sale of its 99.5%stake in Sberbank Slovensko, a.s to Penta Investments. Confidentiality has been agreed concerning the purchase price. The closingof the transaction is subject to customary approvals of the AntimonopolyOffice of the Slovak Republic and the European Central Bank. The decision to sell Sberbank Slovensko is consistent with the strategicreview of the markets in which Sberbank Europe operates. Binder Groesswang acted as legal counsel to Sberbank Europe AG. Sberbank Slovensko 665 employees, a balance sheet total of EUR 1.86 billionas of Q3 2015. Penta is a Central European investment group established in 1994. It ownstwo other Slovak banks - Primabanka Slovensko and Privatbanka. It operatesmainly in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and realestate development. The Group manages an evergreen fund sustained by itspartners, the company's only shareholders. Its portfolio companies providejobs to more than 35,000 people and reported assets of EUR 6.7 billion in2014. Penta operates in more than 10 European countries and has offices inPrague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Munich. # # # SberbankAlexander BaziyanPress office Tel. +7(495) 957 5721media@sberbank.ru Sberbank is Russia's largest bank and a leading global financialinstitution. Sberbank holds almost one third of aggregate Russian bankingsector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggestdeposit taker in Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is thefounder and principal shareholder of Sberbank owning 50% of the Bank'sauthorized capital plus one voting share, with the remaining 50% held bydomestic and international investors. Sberbank has more than 135 millionindividual customers and more than 1 million corporate clients in 22countries. Sberbank has the largest distribution network in Russia withalmost 17,000 branches, and its international operations include UK, US,CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and other countries. The Bank holds the general banking license No.1481 issued by the Bank ofRussia. Official websites of the Bank: www.sberbank.com (Sberbank Groupwebsite), www.sberbank.ru. Sberbank Europe (Sberbank Europe AG), headquartered in Vienna, Austria, isa banking group that is 100% owned by Sberbank Russia. Sberbank Europe ispresent in 11 markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): Austria, Bosniaand Herzegovina (Sarajevo and Banja Luka), Croatia, Czech Republic,Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine and Germany. In total,Sberbank Europe operates 288 branches and has around 5,000 employees acrossCEE (as of 31.08.2015).Website: www.sberbank.at --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17-Dec-2015 The EquityStory.RS, LLC Distribution Services include RegulatoryAnnouncements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.Media archive at www.dgap.de/ukreg --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Sberbank 19 Vavilova St. 117997 Moscow Russia Phone: +7-495-957-57-21 E-mail: media@sberbank.ru Internet: www.sberbank.ru ISIN: US80585Y3080, RU0009029540, RU0009029557, US80585Y4070 Listed: Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt ; London, MICEX, RTS Category Code: MSC TIDM: SBER Sequence Number: 2941 Time of Receipt: 17-Dec-2015 / 10:01 CET/CEST End of Announcement EquityStory.RS, LLC News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 424565 17-Dec-2015UK-Regulatory-announcement transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.