date:Feb 25, 2014
Russia's maize (corn) export prices rose last week as it picked up demand from rival supplier Ukraine, where political turmoil has held up new deals, Russian analytical firm SovEcon said in a note on Monday. Former Soviet republic Ukraine, which is expected to be the world's second largest grain exporter in 2013/14 behind the United States, says it needs $35 billion to get through 2014 and 2015, due to its protracted political crisis.
Its president Viktor Yanukovich, ousted after bloody street