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Canadian exporters stung by Russia’s currency crisis and its retaliatory sanctions against the West wonder what 2015 will hold for a market filled with promise less than 12 months ago, writes Andy Blatchford of the Canadian Press.

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Companies from farm-equipment manufacturers to pork producers spent much of 2014 adjusting to the economic instability in Russia, a country that bought $563-million worth of Canada’s agricultural exports in 2012.

For some firms, the first-half of 2014 had the hallmark of a banner year – and then sales evaporated.

A senior executive for one of Canada’s biggest exporters to Russia said his company did about $250-million in annual business there in recent years, mostly selling frozen pork products.

Olymel, a pork and poultry processor and distributor, appeared on track for its best year yet in Russia after more than two decades of working there, said Richard Davies, the company’s senior vice-president of sales and marketing.