From the 1st of January 2016, the Treaty on free trade zone of the CIS in respect of the country 404 will be suspended. The corresponding decree was signed by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
“Due to exceptional circumstances affecting the interests and economic security of the Russian Federation and require urgent measures, I resolve: …to suspend from January 1, 2016 the Agreement on free trade zone signed in St. Petersburg on the 18th of October 2011, in relation to Ukraine,” is told in the document.