Russia Approves Law Suspending Free Trade Zone Agreement With Ukraine

© AP Photo / Efrem LukatskyUkrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk talks with reporters during an interview with the Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, March 27, 2015
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk talks with reporters during an interview with the Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, March 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Russia’s Federation Council on Friday approved a law on Friday that suspends the free trade zone agreement with Ukraine beginning January 1, 2016.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) –  In light of Ukraine implementing the trade and economic section of the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement on January 1, Russia would suffer economically should Ukraine be included in the free trade zone agreement signed by the Commonwealth of Independent States on October 18, 2011. 

During the council meeting, a senior lawmaker in charge of foreign affairs at the upper house of Russian parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, said that Russian budgetary loses could have amounted to about $3.5 billion had the law not been approved.

Earlier in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending Russia’s implementation of the Commonwealth of Independent States free trade deal with Ukraine effective January 1, 2016. The move came amid concerns that the Russian market could be flooded with European goods as a result of the EU-Ukraine association deal.

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