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The growth in international online shopping caused to development of internet trading in Finland. According to the statistics, the Finns shop online annually in the amount of 4 bln euros half of which is related to the foreign web shops.

The traffic signs limitting the maximum speed in winter were changed in Finland on the 3-4 of April.

Implementation of the railway transport reform in the Russian Federation makes necessary to change the current international rail transport agreements. The State Duma of Russian Federation has already ratified a new agreement for through railway service between Russia and Finland.

The rise in prices of salmon supplied to Finland from Chile is determined by a sharp decline of its catch volume because of the spread of naturally occurring toxic substances in shore waters.

Minister of Agriculture and the Environment of Finland, Kimmo Tiilikainen is concerned about the present situation in the agricultural market of the country.

With negative indices in 2015 in contrast to 2014 merchandise exports of Finland keep declining – its volume decreased by 10% in January compared with January last year.

The introduction of Russian product embargo in response to the European economic sanctions and a low level of support from the EU led to a sharp decline in the profitability of farms in Finland.

The transport and logistics company DB Schenker because of decrease in quantity of a cargo transportation has made the decision on staff reduction in Finland.

With regard to electronic documents, in 2016 from Russia to Finland were transported by rail more than 3 million tons of cargo, which is 22.6% more than in 2014.

Analysis of the foreign trade of Finland in 2015 showed a sharp decline in export to Russia - by 34%, therefore, Russia is the third-largest player.

In 2016 Karelian customs plans to move to a simplified electronic mode of customs clearance of cargoestransported by rail.

Russian representatives of the Finnish company Kemppi Oy note that the manufacturer is interested in cooperation with all regions of Russia and plans to supply welding equipment to the ports of the Crimea, but only after economic sanctions will become invalid.

Construction of the factory Nor-Maali Oy will begin in spring 2016 in the Pskov region and will be carried out on the territory of special economic zone “Moglino”. The company's investment in the construction of the new facility will amount to 4 million EUR.

A lot of snow on the roads in Finland resulted in serious road traffic accidents. Utilities take all possible measures for the timely cleaning of roads, but the situation is still quite difficult.

Finland was ranked 6th out of the countries most attractive for business, according to Forbes.

Since December 14, after signing the Government Executive Order, has begun commercial operation of the Russian port "Bronka".

The Kaluga region in the framework of the business forum of Finnish companies was visited by the Finnish Ambassador Hannu Himanen.

The organizers of the international automobile manufacturing exhibition Automechanika Shanghai have high expectations of exhibition events in 2015.

The five-day strike of Finnish postal workers, which was scheduled to be completed on November 24, is reaching considerable heights.