date:Aug 11, 2014
inister Nikolai Fyodorov has acknowledged the ban would cause a short-term spike in inflation, but said he saw no danger in the medium or long term as Russia started to look elsewhere for substitute imports.
The ministry, referring to a meeting with food sector unions, said: Participants at the meeting discussed the possibility of signing with producers and agricultural products processors an agreement on ... price policy, to prevent any speculative rises in prices for agricultural products.
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