KIEV, Sept. 30 – A full-scale breakup of Ukraine's economic ties with the CIS Member States, the Customs Union, and first of all, Russia, if Kiev signs the agreement on a Free Trade Area with the European Union, is hardly probable, according to Ihor Burakovsky, chairman of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

Presenting at Interfax-Ukraine a survey on the economic consequences of the signing of the FTA agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, the expert denied one of the economic consequences of signing the agreement with the EU would be the possible breaking-off of the FTA Agreement between Ukraine and the CIS.