OREANDA-NEWS. October 26, 2012. The third consecutive year, domestic trade turnover has significantly been increasing in the country (from the beginning of this year - by 20%). This was stated by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov at the Cabinet meeting.

"This shows the steady growth of the purchasing power of citizens and the correctness of the course exactly to develop domestic consumption, and, moreover, domestic products," Mykola Azarov emphasized.

Thus he has underlined that Ukraine's Government has managed to achieve this at a time when in the world, in most European countries, there is the financial and economic crisis.

"In many countries, they have at all forgotten about the growth. Instead, they have falling production, rising unemployment, declining really social guarantees," Mykola Azarov said. "These are obvious facts that do not want to see our opponents. But we cannot ignore the fact that under which background, within which conditions, we continue to support economic growth, continuing administrative reform, deregulation of the economy that actually yield positive results."