date:Aug 25, 2014
ggest pork producer, with annual sales of over $1.5 billion, has - unusually for an agricultural business - received big state loans.
Medvedev personally inspected one of its landmark projects, when it brought tens of thousands of Aberdeen Angus cows to the Bryansk region from the U.S. and Australia.
Miratorg is owned by businessmen Viktor and Alexander Linnik, who are worth $360 million, according to Russian Magazine CEO.
They stand to gain from import shortfalls caused by the bans.
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