Russia will allow imports from neighbouring Belarus and Kazakhstan of food processed from Western raw materials as Moscow seeks to damp down domestic food price rises triggered by its ban on food imports from the West.
On Aug. 7, Russia banned all meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetable imports from the United States, the European Union, Norway, Canada, and Australia for one year to retaliate against Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
This has been excerpted from an 18 August 2014 article by Reuters and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/18/ukraine-crisis-russia-food-idUSL5N0QO2OD20140818