<div>UPDATE 1-Russian lender Sberbank's profit hit by soaring provisions</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Russia's largest lender Sberbank on Thursday reported a 46.8% slump in first-quarter profit after boosting provisions against bad loans in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=t6wynxA1vyM:Nm8EDVZxe9Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=t6wynxA1vyM:Nm8EDVZxe9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=t6wynxA1vyM:Nm8EDVZxe9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=t6wynxA1vyM:Nm8EDVZxe9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=t6wynxA1vyM:Nm8EDVZxe9Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/t6wynxA1vyM" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters