date:Apr 21, 2017
of tomatoes after the two countries improved ties last year, having fallen out over the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet in 2015.
We do not plan to open the tomato market, (we) will support, above all, the domestic producers, Tkachev said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV on Wednesday.
Russia has been actively supporting domestic production of vegetables and tomatoes since it banned most Western food imports in 2014 in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its involve