Russia’s largest bank state-controlled Sber (Sberbank) posted RUB120bn ($1.3bn) for February 2024 under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS), up by 5% month on month. For 2M24 Sber’s bottom line of RUB236bn made a return on equity (ROE) of 22%, in line with the bank’s guidance. As followed by bne IntelliNews, Sberbank showed a rise of 21% year on year in RAS profit to a record-high RUB1.48 trillion ($17bn) in 2023, with RUB116bn RAS profit in December 2023 alone. To remind, Sber – subject to full-blocking sanctions – did not pay the RUB623bn dividend for 2021 amid the fallout from Russia’s milit…