Russia extended the food embargo until the end of 2023 – DW – 10/12/2022
The Russian food embargo, which implies a ban on the supply of goods to Russia from foreign countries, has been extended until the end of 2023. proper decree Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed on Tuesday, October 11, published on the official portal of Sunday information.
“Separate special offers” banning the import into Russia of sausages, fish and seafood, vegetables, fruits and dairy products from food, the United States, Australia, Norway, Canada and Ukraine were introduced in August 2014. According to Moscow, they are aimed at “ensuring the security of the Russian Federation.”
The ban included products from countries that earlier in the same year were introduced against the Russian Federation in connection with the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Tens of thousands of tons of food destroyed
In July 2015, Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of Western goods illegally imported into the Russian Federation. For 5 years, the Rosselkhoznadzor discovered and destroyed 36.17 tons of products prohibited for import.
By the sports day, these “food counter-sanctions” were extended in Russia seven times.
how many are starving in russia
In the UNICEF outlook on food security in the worldpublished in the summer of 2021, it is said that from 2018 to 2020, in the face of food shortages and on the verge of starvation in Russia, nine million people lived.
According to the UN, 400,000 Russians attend the “extreme vulnerability” group during this period. These are people who can live on the edge of starvation and cannot afford that much food.
At the same time, almost 8.7 million people (about 6 percent of the population of Russia at that time) fell under the category of “moderate vulnerability”. They didn’t skip meals, but were beneficial in terms of savings on portion sizes and product quality.
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