Retailers in Russia will limit sales of essential foodstuffs to limit black market speculation and ensure affordability, the government said Sunday, as sanctions imposed over Moscow’s military incursion into Ukraine began to bite.
“The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Agriculture supported the initiative of trade organizations,” the release said, noting that the organizations themselves would work out the policy. Moscow has been hit with a damaging package of financial and cultural penalties by Western countries since the Kremlin initiated what it has called “a special military operation” in neighbouring Ukraine on February 24.