Contacts of Russia with Ukraine and the EU, their associations are not yielding the results from the European partners there is a reluctance to take into account the concerns of Russia, said the press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. agreement of Ukraine and EU unity, for example, includes the area of free trade. Russia is concerned with the introduction from 1 January 2016 in the provisions of the FTA and fears of an influx of duty free items from the EU through Ukraine. In addition, before Ukraine joined the Western sanctions against Russia. Then Russia decided not to impose retaliatory measures. But Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev did not rule out, because it will happen in the future. According to him, if Moscow in the negotiations with Kiev and Brussels will not be able to remove their concerns on the issue of their Association, from January 1, 2016, Russia will cancel Ukraine preferential trade regime, as well as enter the food embargo on Ukrainian subjects. "Unfortunately, our Contacts with the Europeans and the Ukrainians do not bring the desired results, and the impact of the entry into force of the Treaty (the economic part of the agreement on Association of Ukraine and the EU - ed.) continued to remain negative as long as. Attempts to discuss this issue until did not succeed and there is even a regression from the position of the unwillingness of European colleagues to take into account the concerns of Russia, " said Sands. first Chapter the Ministry of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev has confirmed his participation in scheduled for 1 December in Brussels tripartite Ministerial meeting on the implementation of the economic part of the agreement on Association Ukraine-EU, however, said that chances to reach before the end of the year the consensus on removing the risks for the Russian Federation on the issue under consideration is small.