postbank appeared in 2016 as a large-scale retail network based on post offices. today, it has 25,000 service points in 83 regions of russia. many of these points are located in small towns . until the end of the seventeenth year , the controlling stake belonged to vtb, but then the group entered into an agreement with the russian post on parity ownership, meaning that each party owned 49% of the shares, the remaining two went to dmitry rudenok , who was then the head of the bank. later, vtb bought them back, but sold them again in 2022 to the new head of the bank's post office, alexander pokhomov. in this way, vtb wanted to protect the bank's post office from sanctions, but in november last year the organization still fell under us restrictions. as previously explained in the vtb group, they are interested in pochtabank due to its a large audience. its active client base is more than 8.5 million people. and vtb, by the way, intends to increase the number of active... as for russian post, it is also profitable for it to sell its stake in the bank, experts believe,