The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia's accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domestic pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector forth...

The short-term consequences of the bans imposed in 2014 on pork imports into Russia from the countries that used to be major suppliers of meat to this country are as follows: an altered geography of import supplies, rising prices on the pork market and related markets, and plummeting consumer...