FOOD’S SANCTIONS: WHAT RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN NEED –AND WHERE POLICIES FAIL

... Presidents of many Russian Commercial Unions in the food sector from one side and spokesmen of the Russian and Belarusian Ministries of Agriculture on the other. Issues such as the politics put in place by the government in the context of the “import substitution strategy” and the needs and difficulties of entrepreneurs were extensively discussed. What I want to point out in this brief article is the clear discrepancy that emerged between the authorities’ view of the situation ...