After the start of the war, the EU exports to Russia fell by 47%, in the CIS - grew by 48

For nine months of Russian invasion of Ukraine, export of goods from the European Union to Russia decreased by 47%, to the CIS countries - increased by 48% compared to the same period of 2021. This follows from the data of the Eurostat, which refer to Euromonitor International and RBC.

According to data, the European Union exported goods 36.3 billion euros to Russia to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine (compared with 69.2 billion a year earlier). At the same time, to the CIS countries, namely: in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as well as Georgia, which was not part of this association, goods from the European Union received 20.3 billion euros (compared to 13.7 billion a year ago).

At the same time, exports from the CIS countries to Russia also grew by almost 40%, or by 9.4 billion euros in monetary terms, follows from the data collected by RBC.

Vaidotas Zlenas-Balevichus, head of the Euromonitor International Data Department, suggests that a significant part of the goods entering the CIS countries from the European Union is redirected to Russia. Analysts of the American center Silverado previously wrote about the same.

Having analyzed the data of the Eurostat, Earth-Balevichus discovered more than a hundred possible “sanctions anomalies”, which he understands large exports, which increased at least after the start of the war, despite the sanctions against Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. Among these anomalies: deliveries of used cars from Lithuania to Belarus, smartphones and laptops from the Czech Republic to Kazakhstan, aviation kerosene from Greece to Georgia.

It is known that in the first half of 2022, Kazakhstan sharply increased the export of smartphones to Russia - more than two thousand times in dollar terms, according to official statistics of Kazakhstan.

Greece, Cyprus, Czech Republic and Estonia 3-5.5 times increased the supply of sanctions goods to the countries neighboring with Russia, calculated Earth-Balevichus. The export of other countries grew more modest, only Sweden and Malta did not increase their supplies to the CIS countries.