MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Russian banks posted
profits of 293 billion roubles ($3.85 billion) in February, up
14% on January levels, the central bank said on Tuesday.
The central bank also said banks reduced the volume of their
loan portfolios that was in foreign currencies by 363 billion
roubles during the month, and bought around 200 billion roubles
of the government's OFZ bonds that were auctioned during
February.
($1 = 76.0513 roubles)
(Reporting by Reuters)
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