Russia’s government banned wholesale imports of fresh food products from the European Union in 2014 in retaliation for Western states imposing sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. Suren Matevosyan, ...

On January 10, 2016, Ukrainian embargo on Russian imports is coming into force. On December 29, 2016, the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on the embargo on Russian imports, introduced as a response of Russia’s embargo on ...

On January 9, Russian federal authorities destroyed and buried 225.2 kg of Turkish tangerins found in a supermarket in a village of Inozemtsevo, Stavropol region in south Russia. Somehow, a local businessman managed to smuggle fruits to the country. Now, ...