date:Aug 11, 2014
e measures were taken in retaliation for the Western sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
The Russian government imposed a one-year ban on imports of beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheeses, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from Australia, Canada, the EU, the United States and Norway, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Medvedev as saying.
He said that Russia has long restrained from responding to the sanctions imposed by the West.