Kostin said that at present “in the Crimea, in general, there are so many investments, even state ones, that they just cannot master them, they do not have time to master them”.

According to him, “private capital is beginning to slowly return there, and the banking sector there is sufficiently closed by RNKB and Bank Rossiya.

“In principle, I do not see big problems in the banking sector for large banks to enter there,” Kostin quotes TASS.

In June, Kryminform reported that the largest bank in Crimea, RNKB, has issued 2.1 million cards of the MIR payment system to residents of the Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and Krasnodar Territory since 2019.