File image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Vladimir Putin has extended Russia's ban on imports of Western food until the end of 2017, according to Reuters.
Russia banned foods from the 28-nation European Union (EU) and some other Western countries in 2014 in response to Western sanctions imposed on it for its role in the Ukraine crisis, shutting out a vast range of goods from French and Irish cheese to Spanish fruit and ham.
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