OREANDA-NEWS. Assets of the bank sector of Russia increased by 44% for 2006 and have made 14 trillion 45 billion 561 million roubles as of January 1, 2007, the portal Banki.ru reports.

At the same time, the volume of own means of the Russian bank increased by 36,3% up to 1 trillion 692 billion 714 million as of January 1, 2007.