Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to press members after participating in 'Direct Line with Vladimir Putin', annual event where he answers questions from Russian people, in Moscow, Russia on June 20, 2019. Sefa Karacan - Anadolu
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday extending a Russian ban on food imports from the European Union until the end of 2020, according to a government database.
Russia imposed an embargo on a wide range of imports from the EU and other countries in 2014 in retaliation for international sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.
(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Anastasia Teterevleva; writing by Maria Kiselyova; editing by John Stonestreet)
