Russia, which has been destroying brie and different banned Western meals, might have to rev up the bulldozers once more to maintain tempo with a rising listing of prohibited imports.
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“Those countries are Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, as well as Ukraine under certain conditions”, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday, according to RIA Novosti.
What all has been banned?
The embargoed products include meat, fish, milk and dairy products, fresh fruit and vegetables and other raw produce.
“At this moment, the Montenegrin government does not have the list of products the Thursday’s decision covers but it remains committed to the upkeep of political dialogues with Russian Federation and to the buildup of serious relations in all the areas presenting mutual interest”, the report said.
Russia, earlier this month, began bulldozing and burning stockpiles of seized EU food and of Dutch flowers, which are subject to a separate ban.
The food “can be used as free aid to people in poverty, people suffering from emergency situations, as humanitarian aid, for example to the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk”, a note to the bill says, referring to east Ukraine’s conflict-torn separatist regions.
The final stroke was the banning of Dutch flowers, which came effective immediately after the recent announcements by Dutch Prosecuting authorities, revealing physical evidence for the use of a Russian made missile system with the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held eastern Ukraine past year.
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The Kremlin claims that western food is unsafe.
