"I think, we will see a number of deals before August. I cannot give you specific names, but it will be already well-known borrowers, as well as some new names," Solovyev said.
"In previous instances, we saw that it was mainly [companies engaged in] metallurgy, transportation, so this motion will continue, although there will be representatives of other sectors, too," he said.
On May 23, Russia announced a return to the international bond market, launching its first Eurobond offering in over two years. VTB Capital, a subsidiary of the Russian VTB Bank financial services corporation, had been designated to carry out the bond operations, with the 10-year bond yield reportedly set to be between 4.65 percent and 4.9 percent per year.
Later in May, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Russia had raised $1.2 billion in the latest foreign Eurobond issue.
