"This is absolutely impossible today and no products are exported from Lithuania to Russia. The only possibility is that some companies have purchased franchise to produce some Lithuanian products," said Egidijus Simonis, the head of the association that unites dairy companies Vilkyskiu Pienine, Rokiskio Suris and Pieno Zvaigzdes.
The information is confirmed by exports statistics: Lithuanian milk processing companies exported merely 717,000 euros worth of production to Belarus in the first eight months of 2016, down from 1.6 mln euros y-o-y.
Furthermore, Russia has constantly been warning Belarus about its plans to cancel imports from the country due to poor quality of products. Since the beginning