Russia may extend counter-sanctions until end-2017 - PM


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  • Friday, 27 May 2016

Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev delivers a speech in Moscow, Russia, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Dmitry Astakhov/Sputnik/Pool

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered his ministers to draft proposals to extend Moscow's food import ban until the end of 2017.

"I assigned (government) to prepare a proposal to extend counter-sanction measures not for one year, but until the end of 2017. A petition to the President will be prepared", he said in a meeting with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

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