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Russia adds four new countries to food import ban list


    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has added Albania, Montenegro, Liechtenstein and Iceland to a list of countries from which it has banned most food imports in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

    Russia will also ban certain food imports from Ukraine from 2016 if an economic association agreement between Kiev and the European Union comes into force, Medvedev added on Thursday.

    (Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; writing by Polina Devitt; editing by Alexander Winning)