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Showing posts with label food import ban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food import ban. Show all posts

Monday 24 November 2014

#Russia: #Russianeconomy falters in face of #westernsanctions


Kremlin flags tit-for-tat food import restrictions as boost for domestic agriculture and chance for Russians to eat home-grown produce

The lives of many Russians are beginning to change, as a combination of western sanctions over Ukraine, a ban on some food imports and falling oil prices weigh on an already weakened economy. More Russians are putting off expensive purchases, adapting travel plans and changing grocery stores. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The lives of many Russians are beginning to change, as a combination of western sanctions over Ukraine, a ban on some food imports and falling oil prices weigh on an already weakened economy. More Russians are putting off expensive purchases, adapting travel plans and changing grocery stores. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters


Trade is not usually brisk at Ala Smirnova’s corner shop sitting among apartment blocks in a suburb of north Moscow. It is mainly seen as a late-night, last resort for locals who have run out of essentials such as soap, beer or bread. That changed this week as word went round that the thinly stocked little store contained a trove of some of the last affordable grechka, or buckwheat, left in town... 
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Sunday 7 September 2014

#Russia Tightens Screws on #Ukraine With Candy #ImportBan


  • The latest decision is likely to hit the Ukrainian sweet industry hard at a time when the country’s economy is in free fall.
    Photo: Pixabay

Russia’s consumer rights agency on Friday banned all imports of Ukrainian confectionery, signaling that the country has no plans to stop using trade as a weapon against countries that align themselves against the country.(Read more)

Monday 25 August 2014

#Russia: Most Russians Support #FoodImportBan, Poll Shows

Most Russians support the ban on some foreign food imports imposed by President Vladimir Putin this month in retaliation to Western sanctions over Ukraine, a survey published Friday showed... (Read more)

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