Moscow extends Western food ban for one year
Russia extends its suspension of import of European food products in retaliation for the European Union’s extension of sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict.
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday extended a ban on most Western food imports for a year.
“The government turned to me with an appeal to extend the measures,” Putin said.
“In accordance ... I signed a decree ... extending our retaliatory measures by one year beginning from today,” he added.
EU foreign ministers formally agreed on Monday to extend economic sanctions against Russia until January 2016.
Brussels has imposed sanctions on Russia’s banking, oil and defense sectors. The Europeans have threatened that more sanctions could follow unless Moscow withdraws what they call its support for the pro-Russia fighters in eastern Ukraine and uses its influence in the region to implement the peace deal for Ukraine.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russia forces and Kiev began in March 2014 and has left over 6,500 people dead since. Moscow denies Western allegations that it is involved in the military conflict.
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