Vladimir Putin on food security at the Seliger 2014 forum
President of Russia quotes RIA News:
Indeed, the issue of food security is relevant for any country, including Russia. What is happening now in this area - there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped. Because we should have done some things a long time ago, for example, to ensure the profitability of transportation of our fish products from the east to the European part, many things are connected with the support of agriculture.
The President stressed the need to improve the legal framework, as well as the need to support domestic producers.
Meanwhile, all the assurances of government officials that they fully control the rise in prices after the introduction of a ban on the import of food from the United States, Canada, the EU, Norway and Australia by Russia remain nothing more than statements. As a result of the first past (full) week since the introduction of retaliatory sanctions by Russia, weekly inflation exceeded 0,12%. On an annualized basis, this is about 6,4%, which exceeds the forecast of the Ministry of Finance by 2014 year, which corresponded to 6%.
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