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Ray

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Your story's "years of recession" are two consecutive years of Finland's GDP shrinking by 1%. It's hardly the 1930's, or in FInland's case the 1990 and use of the term recession is a bit over the top.

Your srticle's not ridiculous and makes some good points, but posting on this forum, which is meant to about the Indian Military, is just going to lead to a flame war. Although, if that's your intent, congratulations.



This is what I mean@Rashna. People misunderstand this website's title and take it to mean "A forum to Defend India" not a site about defence issues, with/ from an Indian perspective.

There's too many here with inferiority complexes and have small minds and think small thoughts. These posters lash back, way, way off topic when they think (usually incorrectly) they are being belittled.
This is basically a Defence oriented forum. But that does not mean Defence Technology alone. It also encompasses the aspects that affect the defence of the nation as also geopolitical and geostrategic issues that impinges on world.

Actually, there are not much of inferiority complex floating around here. It is just that when false and misplace superiority is bandied around, it gets bashed and then tossed out with the garbage.
 
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Finnish Farmers Claim Loss of €400 Million Due to Russia's EU Food Ban
Counter-sanctions biting

(TASS - Russian news agency) | Russia Insider


Cows eating (paraphrased caption)

HELSINKI, September 16 (TASS) - Finnish farmers have lost €400 million euros due to food embargo imposed by Russia last year, Finland’s Central Union of Agricultural Producers (MTK) said in a report distributed on Tuesday.

More than half of losses lie with dairy producers, MTK added. The European Union (EU) made a decision earlier to allocate additional €9 million to Finnish farmers to counter negative consequences of Russia’s ban on importing EU’s certain production. MTK expressed disappointment over the measure saying that “the European Commission does not understand the effect that Russia’s food embargo has on Finnish agricultural sector.”

“It looks like aid is allocated to countries with large agrarian sector mainly because of production volumes and other reasons, and not on the basis of problems created by Russia’s counter-sanctions, MTK executive director Antti Sahi said. “We are extremely disappointed by this end result,” he added.

The excess of dairy products, potatoes and meat on the Finnish market because of Russia’s ban to import these products led to prices falling by at least 5-12%.

The Finnish government promised dairy producers financial aid last year. Apart from that, EU allocated compensation to Finnish farmers worth more than €11 million. However, MTK repeatedly described these measures as insufficient, in particular because they did not include farmers supplying meat and potatoes. More than that, producers demanded to organize free storehouses for all excess goods.

The European Union extended on June 22 its sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2016. On June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on prolonging Russia’s counter-sanctions until August 5, 2016. Russia’s countermeasures involve a ban on the imports of beef, poultry, pork, dairy products, live, chilled and frozen fish and shellfish, nuts, fruits and vegetables.
 

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Finnish Farmers Claim Loss of €400 Million Due to Russia's EU Food Ban
Counter-sanctions biting

(TASS - Russian news agency) | Russia Insider


Cows eating (paraphrased caption)

HELSINKI, September 16 (TASS) - Finnish farmers have lost €400 million euros due to food embargo imposed by Russia last year, Finland’s Central Union of Agricultural Producers (MTK) said in a report distributed on Tuesday.

More than half of losses lie with dairy producers, MTK added. The European Union (EU) made a decision earlier to allocate additional €9 million to Finnish farmers to counter negative consequences of Russia’s ban on importing EU’s certain production. MTK expressed disappointment over the measure saying that “the European Commission does not understand the effect that Russia’s food embargo has on Finnish agricultural sector.”

“It looks like aid is allocated to countries with large agrarian sector mainly because of production volumes and other reasons, and not on the basis of problems created by Russia’s counter-sanctions, MTK executive director Antti Sahi said. “We are extremely disappointed by this end result,” he added.

The excess of dairy products, potatoes and meat on the Finnish market because of Russia’s ban to import these products led to prices falling by at least 5-12%.

The Finnish government promised dairy producers financial aid last year. Apart from that, EU allocated compensation to Finnish farmers worth more than €11 million. However, MTK repeatedly described these measures as insufficient, in particular because they did not include farmers supplying meat and potatoes. More than that, producers demanded to organize free storehouses for all excess goods.

The European Union extended on June 22 its sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2016. On June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on prolonging Russia’s counter-sanctions until August 5, 2016. Russia’s countermeasures involve a ban on the imports of beef, poultry, pork, dairy products, live, chilled and frozen fish and shellfish, nuts, fruits and vegetables.
I do not hear loud complains against those Russia sanctions: people here understand that we have to help Ukraine how we can. We can have sympathies for them because we were in the same situation 75 years ago: first Russian threats, then attack. Also people here understand that even if the first divisions to attack us then were Ukrainian, that was Soviet Union led by Russia who was the aggressor.
 

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