Putin signed a decree on the extension of the counter-sanctions until the end of 2018
Moscow. June 30. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree prolonging the response to anti-Russian sanctions the EU until 31 December 2018.
The decree was signed on 30 June and published on the official portal of legal information.
That the government submits to the President a proposal about the extension of measures in response to another rollover of EU sanctions, on Thursday said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
“We will react adequately. Yesterday this was the question we discussed with the President. The government will submit the proposal to extend the retaliatory measures by one year, until 31 December 2018”, — said Medvedev at a government meeting yesterday.
Food embargoes acts of the Russian Federation, 7 August 2014 in relation to products from the US, EU, Australia, Norway and Canada. 13 Aug 2015 list of these countries included joined the anti-Russian sanctions Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein, January 1, 2016 — Ukraine.
First the ban was introduced for one year. In 2015, it was extended to August 5, 2016, June 2016, until the end of 2017. So, now sanctions six months before their expiry extended for a year.
A ban were meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, fish and fish products, vegetables and fruit. From 1 November 2016 food embargo extended to salt. May 20, 2017, lifted the ban on the supply of salt for the production of medicines and biologically active additives.