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07Aug14
Russia officially publishes list of sanctions against Western states
The Russian government's official web portal for legal information has published a list of one-year sanctions introduced by Russia in regard to a number of foreign states starting Thursday banning import of agricultural, raw and food products.
The sanctions list contains names of products banned for import in Russia and directions for the Russian Federal Customs Service to oversee the implementation of the import embargo.
In response to Western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday to ban for one year the imports of agricultural, raw and food products from the countries, which imposed sanctions against Russia.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced on Thursday that the Russian government imposed a one-year ban on imports of beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheeses, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United States and Norway.
"The government is ready to revise the one-year term of the imposed measures if the situation changes," Medvedev said, who signed a relevant governmental decree on Thursday.
The list of the banned products includes cattle meat (fresh, chilled and refrigerated), pork (fresh, chilled and refrigerated), poultry meat and all poultry edible by-products, salted meat, pickled meat, dried meat, smoked meat, fish and shell fish, clams and other water invertebrates, milk and dairy products, vegetables, edible roots and tuber crops, fruits and nuts, sausage and analogous meat products, meat by-products or blood, as well as products made of them, ready-to-eat products including cheeses and cottage-cheese based on vegetable fats.
The United States and the European Union, as well as Japan introduced a range of sanctions against Russia after Crimea's merger with the country and over Moscow's alleged involvement in armed standoff in Ukraine's southeast.
Moscow repeatedly rejected the threats of broader sanctions saying the language of penalties is counterproductive and will strike back at Western countries.
[Source: Itar Tass, Moscow, 07Aug14]
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