Russia’s budgetary revenues from privatization in 2012 amounted to 201.5 billion roubles. As of mid-January 2013, revenues were 15.5 billion roubles after the transaction for the sale of the Vanino port was closed, said the Federal Property Management Agency.

The biggest deals in 2012 were the sale of a 7.58-percent stake in Sberbank for 159.3 billion roubles, the sale of a 100-percent stake in SG-Trans for 22.77 billion roubles, the sale of a 20-percent stake in Apatite for 11.11 billion roubles, and the sale of a 25.5-percent stake in the Murmansk sea port for 2.2 billion roubles.

On January 14, the government closed on the sale of a 55-percent stake in the Vanino Sea Trading Port for 15.5 billion roubles. The selection of buyers for the port’s acquisition was made in December.