MOSCOW –
The Russian government wants the sanctions against the European Union to extend until the end of 2018. That said the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev Thursday, a day after the EU decided on economic sanctions against Moscow, a further six months to maintain.
Russia, by its own measure since 2014 no products such as fruit, vegetables, fish, meat and dairy and more of many western countries. That penalty affects inter alia the European agricultural sector: the Russians imported annually for billions of euros of food and dairy products from EU countries.
In 2014 imposed Russian sanctions have served as a countermeasure after the EU had previously decided Moscow economic punishment. That criminal penalties were instituted because of the controversial Russian involvement in the conflict in the east of Ukraine.