Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Polish counterpart Ewa Kopacz have clashed over claims that Poland is sending Russia its worst apples and keeping the better ones.
Polish apples, one of the country’s biggest agricultural exports, were banned in Russia last summer after Poland joined other EU members in imposing trade sanctions on Russian state businesses. Earlier this month the Russian government decided to begin destroying apples and any other contraband food, seized at the border due to persistent attempts to smuggle in banned Western products in Russia. Earlier this week Russia also started burning Dutch flower imports, apparently out …read more
Source: Newsweek
