The trade turnover between Ukraine and Russia on the results of 2014 fell by 43%, said the head of the Ministry of economy of Ukraine aivaras Abromavicius.

"The trade turnover with Russia in the past year decreased by 43%. This is a significant drop in turnover. With none of the countries such serious decline, " said Abromavicius at a press conference on Tuesday.

These data disagree with the statistics of the Ministry of economic development. According to the Russian Ministry of trade turnover of the Russian Federation and Ukraine in 2014 fell to 28, 8% to 28, 2 billion dollars, among them, the export of the Russian Federation to Ukraine - 26, 4% to 17, $ 5 billion, imports into the Russian Federation of Ukraine - 32, 5%, to 10, 7 billion.

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