Tit-for-tat: Putin issues retaliatory ban on food imports
August 07, 2014 08:44
CNN reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food.
In a decree signed yesterday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country.
The retaliatory move
comes more than a week after the United States and European Union
increased economic sanctions on Moscow for supporting pro-Russian
separatists fighting Ukraine government forces in the eastern regions of
Donetsk and Luhansk, along the border with Russia.
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