Ukrainian industry has suffered from the crisis stronger than all of the CIS.

The biggest drop in industrial production in the CIS noted at the first two months of 2009 in Ukraine, according to a press release, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth. Compared with the same period of 2008 amounted to 32.8 per cent fall.
Slightly better performance in Moldavia, where promproizvodstvo declined by 26.3 percent. The third line of the worst takes Kyrgyzstan (25.1 percent), while the fourth - Russia (14.6 percent).
Industry of the rest of the CIS has a much higher resistance to the crisis, although the decline was unable to avoid anyone. In Armenia, it was 9.7 per cent in Tajikistan - 6.6 percent, in Kazakhstan - 3.2 per cent, while in Azerbaijan - 2,6 percent. It is easier to just survive a crisis production Belarus, where the decline was only 2.3 per cent. Georgia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the status of the industry during the period under review did not provide.
In general, the CIS industrial production fell by 15 percent, while GDP fell by 10 percent. Retail trade turnover decreased by half.
The leader of inflation also has been Ukraine, where consumer prices in January and February increased by 21.6 percent compared with the first two months of 2008. The second and third places were Kyrgyzstan and Belarus. The lowest inflation in Armenia - 2,5 percent. In Russia, inflation in the early months of 2009 year on year was 13.6 percent.
Earlier, the Minister of Finance of Russia Alexey Kudrin predicted CIS economies in 2009, the growth, but stressed that the recovery rates will be significantly lower than in 2008 (5-6 percent).