Russia extends embargo on Western food products by 2020

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended the embargo on food imports from the European Union (EU) and other countries on Thursday, July 12, by the end of next year.

The decree signed by Putin stipulates that the embargo will remain in force until December 31, 2019.

The Ministry of Agriculture (ZM) noted that Russia does not have the right to do so. was not supposed to extend the embargo on the import of food from the EU. Similarly, Latvian food producers and Russia's renewed ban on EU food imports remain unchanged, only prolonging the implementation of the Russian decision of 6 August 2014, added the Ministry of Agriculture. The United States, Australia, Norway and Canada. This is Moscow's reaction to the sanctions that were imposed upon it after the annexation of Crimea.

2015. In August, the embargo was also imposed on Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein, and in 2016 in Ukraine, which also joined the international sanctions against Russia imposed in Ukraine

. , fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy products. Ice cream is not part of this list.