According to Natalya Shagaida, director of the RANEPA Center for Agri-Food Policy, Russian food imports are approximately equal to exports. “Now the structure of imports has been normalized: there are no groups for which we are critically dependent on foreign supplies . The main import group is fruits and nuts. This will continue to be so if we don’t refuse from nuts, citrus fruits and bananas,” the expert commented. The next most important group is dairy products. Here the main supplier is Belarus. Within the EAEU, everything is also predictable, it is hardly necessary to consider the issue of reducing trade with our partner, the modernization of the dairy industry of which was carried out with the expectation of Russia. “As the experience of last year has shown, prices are growing for those products that Russia provides for itself,” said Shagaida. “And some of them are not even exported. So the problem of rising prices is not about imports,” she is sure.
My source tells another story. It says Russian imports of food are nearly equal to exports and that they are not critically dependent on food imports.
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