Russia to ban transit of EU foodstuffs?

Poland has received signals that Russia’s embargo on agricultural produce from Western countries could be extended to transit, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Janusz Piechociński said on Wednesday. “We are receiving the first indications that Russia's customs and other authorities are trying to widen the embargo also to the transit of goods,” Piechociński said at a press conference. “I will personally intervene on various diplomatic levels in this case,” he added Piechocińsk commented that any “transport war” would be harmful to relations between the EU and the Customs Union (Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus).