Ukraine: trade with Finland growing

Trade between Ukraine and Finland has increased by 17%, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. He stated this at a joint briefing with Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini. “Our turnover has grown by 17%,” Klimkin said. In addition, he said that a meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Finnish commission on trade and economic cooperation was…

Belarus: milk production up in 2017

In 2017 Belarusian agricultural enterprises of all kinds (state-run agricultural enterprises, private farming enterprises, and personal subsidiary economies) produced 7,321,900 tons of milk, up 2.5-fold YoY, the National Statistics Committee reported. As of January 1 the cattle population in the agricultural enterprises of all kinds made up 4.4 million, up by 1.5%, including 1.5 million…