On October 15, Crimean gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov decided to tell the population about the occupiers’ “foreign economic activity”, which is allegedly “actively developing”.
However, the criminal “head of Crimea” did not report any figures regarding the specific volumes of such activity, indicating that allegedly “more than 35% of the foreign trade turnover” of the occupied peninsula falls on Belarus, also naming “Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Syria”.
Let us recall, that two months ago, the fake “vice-premier” and “finance minister” of the occupiers Irina Kiviko announced an alleged “growth in exports” from the occupied peninsula from 30 million dollars in 2022 to 37 million in 2023, declaring Turkey and then Kazakhstan as the “main importer of Crimean goods” in 2023. Let us recall, that it is impossible to verify these “fantastic” figures with other “key counterparties”; even the fake “Krymstat” stopped publishing its “official statistics” on “Crimean exports and imports” in the conditions of a large-scale war.
Previously, this structure declared amounts of approximately 34-37 million for 2019-2021, of which a significant part was trade with mainland Ukraine.
For example, in the pompous collection of “Krymstat” “Crimean Spring” published in the summer, dedicated to the decade of occupation, in the “export” column for 2023, both according to the “plan” and “actually”, there are dashes.
And therefore it is not surprising that Kiviko “got confused in her testimony”, calling the amounts of “export” in 2023 first 15 million dollars, and then 20 million.
Now Aksyonov, instead of some sums, preferred to talk about three “full-scale agreements” of the “international level” with the Vitebsk region, “Abkhazia and South Ossetia”, as well as “agreements with Nicaragua and Syria”, and 64 “interregional agreements” with Russian entities.
However, the real “dynamics of Crimean exports” can be understood from other information, even from that same “Krymstat”, which it clearly published “by oversight”.
For example, these publications say that at the beginning of 2024, 47 “foreign” business structures were “registered” on the peninsula, and over the past 9 months, 35 of them “self-liquidated”, with 11 “newly created” “firms”.
Among 200 Crimean “joint ventures” this year, the “loss” was 11 positions, and so on; apparently, Aksyonov’s stories about the “growth of foreign economic activity” have been “slightly forgotten” to extend to the illegal “export” business itself.
