MOSCOW - MTS, Russia's top mobile phone operator, said on Tuesday it had placed in full a five-year bond worth 15 billion roubles ($464.5 million).
Bids amounted to 25.72 billion roubles, VTB Capital, one of the issue organisers, said in a statement. Some 15 percent of the 94 investors which bid in the sale were foreigners.
The bond
MTS is part of the Sistema holding company.
It currently has three outstanding rouble bonds worth a combined 30 billion roubles that mature in 2013-2018
(Reporting by Yelena Fabrichnaya and Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Hans Peters)

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