Ukraine crisis: Putin orders retaliatory sanctions


A shopper in a Moscow supermarket, 5 August 2013
A shopper in a Moscow supermarket (photo taken last year)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned or curbed agricultural imports from countries imposing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

In a decree (Russian text), he ordered the measures, which also apply to food imports, to be introduced for one year.
Meanwhile, renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine has forced the suspension of a search for the remains of the victims of crashed flight MH17.

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