Russia’s largest state-controlled lender Sberbank (Sber) will pay record-high RUB752bn ($8.5bn) in dividends for 2023, or RUB33.3 per ordinary and one preferred share (10.6% yield for both), Kommersant daily and RBC business portal report citing the shareholder meeting decision. To remind, Sber, under full blocking sanctions, did not pay the RUB623bn dividend for 2021 amid the fallout from Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. But the bank surprised with the record-breaking total dividend payout of RUB565bn ($7.3bn) in 2022, making more than double the RUB271bn net profit the bank …