NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 29 – The doubling of the Russia-Ukraine trade is a result of normalization of relations between the two countries in the political sphere, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at th beginning of a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday.

In response to Putin's report that bilateral trade doubled in the first four months of this year Azarov said that the doubled trade is first the result of normalization of relations in the political sphere.