Russian juice and dairy maker Wimm Bill Dann said on Friday it had bought one of the largest milk processing plants in Irkutsk region in Siberia for an undisclosed amount.
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December 22, 2006
The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia’s biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, Reuters news agency reports
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December 15, 2006Russia has lifted the ban on the importation of industrially manufactured and heat-treated meat and dairy products from Brazil. Simultaneously it banned deliveries of pig meat from a U.S. meat packaging company for free sale.
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December 12, 2006
Itsu Ltd., the London sushi chain where a former Russian spy ate before he died of radiation poisoning, is expanding to New York, Bloomberg reports.
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Russia has imposed a temporary ban on rice imports, citing quality concerns in Asian and U.S.-produced rice, agriculture officials said Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
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December 5, 2006A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006Greek wines have the opportunity to expand their share on the Russian market following bans on wine imports from Georgia and Moldova, an agriculture minister said Monday, RIA Novosty reports.
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November 27, 2006Consumer goods giant Unilever aims to invest €100 million (₤68 million) in the next two to four years developing plants in Russia, a company official said on Friday.
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November 24, 2006Russia’s president said Thursday that Poland should stop defending illegally-shipped food products and start direct negotiations with Russia on meat exports.
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The export of Norwegian salmon to Ukraine has quadrupled in value in one year. Much of the salmon is probably re-exported to Russia.
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November 23, 2006
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