Vladimir Putin signed a
decree today for extension for another year of defendant sanctions of Russia against
the countries that have introduced sanctions against Russia because of Crimea
and Ukraine.
The Russian president said
that the government has turned to him with a request to continue the measures
taken in response to such actions by some countries.
The extension is for one
year and is considered by August 6 and not immediately, as it was announced earlier
today.
On August 6 will end the
effect of the previous decree that introduced the countermeasures.
On August 1, 2014 the EU
introduced sanctions against Russia because of events in Ukraine and the annexation
of the Crimea and afterwards they were repeatedly extended and expanded. The
last decision in this direction was taken on 22 June. In response to these
sanctions Moscow introduced countermeasures last year. They were imposed in
August 2014 for a year against the US, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway and concern
the import prohibition in Russia by those countries of fruit, vegetables, dairy
and meat products.
Russian Ministry of
Agriculture announced earlier today that will enhance the control in order to
prevent the Russian market from products that come from European countries that
supported sanctions against Moscow.
"In any case we will
not allow products from countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia, to
fall one way or another, through secret compartments, black schemes or labels
of third countries on the territory of Russia," said Tkachev – the
Minister of agriculture.
Russian authorities have
announced several times that EU goods are entering the country with labels of
countries which are not EU members, such as Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.
On Monday, EU leaders voted
continuation of sanctions against Moscow to January 2016!
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