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Disinfo: Russia has not cut economic ties with Ukraine

Summary

Russia has not made any specific decision to cut economic ties with Ukraine.

Disproof

Russia unilaterally decided to exclude Ukraine from a free trade bloc of former Soviet states (CIS Free Trade Agreement) starting on the 1 January 2016.

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Voskresnyi vecher s Vladimirom Solovyovym - YouTube [from 19:35]
  • Reported in: Issue 24
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 17/04/2016
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Russia, Ukraine
  • Keywords: Trade, Sanctions

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Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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