“As for the possible impact of membership (Finland. -
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) in NATO on Russian-Finnish trade and economic relations, here, unfortunately, our bilateral trade has almost collapsed as a result of the barbaric economic sanctions of the European Union against Russia, to which Finland disciplined joined ", - said the ambassador.
He added that trade "has fallen sharply" and many investment projects have been frozen.
“Finnish business has already left or is leaving the Russian market,” the TASS diplomat quotes.
According to Kuznetsov, the restoration of bilateral trade and economic relations between Russia and Finland will take a long time and will be quite painful.
On May 2, the Finnish company Fennovoima announced that it had terminated the contract with RAOS Project JSC (a subsidiary of Rusatom Energo International) for the construction of the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki.
Rosatom expressed disappointment with the decision of the Finnish company Fennovoima to terminate the contract for the construction of the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant and called it "absolutely incomprehensible."