Moscow - Russian companies and banks are watching events in Ukraine anxiously because they stand to lose billions in investments and business in the former Soviet republic.
Russian banks are the biggest overseas lenders to Ukraine, accounting for 12 percent of the sector with about $28 billion of exposure, including Sberbank, VEB and VTB.
Companies with exposure are in the oil and gas sector, telecoms and metals and mining.
The mainly Russian-speaking eastern regions, which produce coal, metals, chemical products and combines for nuclear plants, are among the most heavily industrialised parts of Ukraine.
Following is an outline of some of the big Russian companies with interests in Ukraine:
METALS AND MINING
Aluminium giant Rusal owns Nikolaev (Mykolayiv) alumina plant in Ukraine, its second largest alumina asset. It is functioning normally, according to the company.
The company also owns Zaporozhye alumina and aluminium complex which suspended work several years ago due to low aluminium prices.
VSMPO Avisma, the world's largest titanium producer, owns a titanium alloy tubes producer - Vsmpo Titan Ukraine.
Evraz operates a steel mill in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk, sells its goods in Ukraine and ships them to Russia and the Middle East. Annual capacity is around 900,000 tonnes of pig iron, 820,000 tons of crude steel and 700,000 tons of rolled products.
Evraz, the biggest stake in which is owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, also owns Sukha Balka iron ore project near Donetsk, with an annual capacity of around 2.5 million tons of iron ore production.
It ships to local plants as well as overseas.
Mechel operates a steel mill - Donetsk electro metallurgical plan (known as DMZ) - in Donetsk.
Annual capacity is around 1 million tons of crude steel a year.
Supplies steel products to more than 30 countries.
Mechel group, owned by billionaire Igor Zyuzin, has been trying to sell the plant back to its previous owner, businessman Vadim Varshavsky.
TELECOMS
Russian telecoms firm MTS is the second largest mobile operator by subscribers in Ukraine.
It had 22.4 million subscribers in Ukraine at the end of September, 2013.
MTS has 12 percent of EBITDA - earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation - coming from Ukraine according to a research note from VTB Capital, which estimates the sensitivity of MTS's 2014 EBITDA is 1 percent for a 10 percent hryvnia, Ukraine's currency, devaluation.
Russian telecoms firm Vimpelcom's Ukrainian operations accounted for 8 percent of its third-quarter EBITDA, according to its latest earnings report.
“Visibility over the Ukrainian economic outlook is limited at this point,” VTB Capital analyst Ivan Kim wrote in a research report.
“We note that Ukraine is much more important for Vimpelcom as a source of cash flow vs. MTS.”
A MTS spokesman said Ukraine business contributes around 10 percent to Group revenue and 12 percent to the Group OIBDA.
Networks operate in standard mode.
OIL AND GAS
Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, could soon buy Ukraine's Odessa oil refinery, which has been secured by Russian state bank VTB because of the outstanding debts of the former owner, Kommersant newspaper said on Monday.
Rosneft already controls Ukraine's second-largest Lisichansk refinery.
Russian mid-sized oil producer Tatneft has been involved in a legal dispute over ownership of Ukraine's Kremenchug oil refinery (Ukrtatnafta), Ukraine's largest.
The plant's former managers used armed police to oust managers friendly to Tatneft, citing a court order, in 2007.
INVESTMENT FIRM
Russian investment group Summa, which owns half of Russian state grain trader United Grain Company (UGC), plans to build a grain and container terminal in Ukraine's Mykolayiv region on the Black Sea when tensions ease, it said on Monday. - Reuters