The products under sanctions set for destruction should be directed to the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The statement was sent to the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev by the Duma deputy Andrei Krutov, izvestia.ru reports.
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“The war in the east of Ukraine turned into a true humanitarian disaster. Donbas receives help from the Russian Emergencies Ministry and foundations, but this aid is not enough, said the deputy in the request. Small towns and villages are now in the disastrous conditions. The problem is aggravated by the fact that Kyiv authorities have actually imposed a blockade on these regions. I am asking you to consider the possibility to provide in the appropriate resolution of the Government not only an issue of the destruction of the products, but also the possibility to send these products to the residents of Donbass,” the outlet quotes the deputy’s address.
The MP said that Russia had already sent to Donbass 34 humanitarian convoys.
On 24 July, the head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, asked Vladimir Putin to allow destroying the banned products at the border. The head of state supported the idea.
On July 31, the Russian government adopted a decree “On the order of destruction of agricultural products prohibited from being imported into Russia”, according to which on August 6, all the banned products that arrive into the territory of the Russian Federation, must be destroyed.
Earlier, there were proposals to give the products to the poor and refugees from Ukraine. Some have suggested destroying forbidden foods “by eating”. But it is still not known how this method is legal. The resolution notes that destruction of banned products can be made in any way that does not violate the law in the field of environmental protection.
It should be noted that a government decree prohibits only the import of banned goods, which is successfully used by retailers. In early July, JSC Tander, working under the name Magnit, won a court case against Rospotrebnadzor, which had fined the St. Petersburg store for the sale of French cheese, kommersant.ru reports. The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region came to the conclusion that the ban on the importation of products is not equivalent to a ban on its sale.
In June 2015 Moscow prolonged the operation of the food embargo until August 6, 2016 against the United States, Australia, Canada, Norway and the EU countries in response to Western sanctions in connection with the Russian annexation of Crimea.
