Finnish companies want to trade with Russia

Despite steady decline of export volumes, Finland continues to consider Russia as a good economic partner. For the first six months of 2016 Finnish-Russian Chamber of commerce has received about 250 requests from Finnish enterprises which want to establish trading relations with Russia. 

The bulk of the interested companies is technology enterprises. Firstly, it is explained by Russian retaliatory sanctions against agricultural products, and secondly, by the need of Russia for western specialists to improve technologies in industries launched according to the import substitution program. 

Source - yle.fi