Russian PM signs food embargo extension for another year

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree to extend Russia’s embargo on food imports until August 5, 2016. The details of the extended ‘blacklist’ remained unchanged, he said.

"The list is no different [from last year – Ed.] except for some positions. It includes the same livestock products, including meat of cattle, pigs, edible offal, fish and shellfish, milk and dairy products, vegetables, sausages and so on,” Medvedev said.

Countermeasures to Western sanctions were dictated not by political, but economic motives, he added.

Medvedev urged ministers not to comment on the decision to extend the Russian food embargo before final publication of the relevant documents. “It confuses the market and introduces uncertainty,”he added .... http://rt.com/business