Pig

Rosselkhoznadzor prohibited the import of pig products from Belarus, according to the website of the department. As the deputy head of the service, Alexei Saurin announced in a letter to the chief veterinary inspector of a neighboring country to Yuri Pivovarchik, such a measure is explained by a dysfunctional situation with the African plague of pigs in Belarus. The ban is introduced temporarily, Saurin added.

The day before, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that Russia could revise relations with Belarus in connection with the arrest of the head of Uralkali, Vladislav Baumgernner. He called the current situation unacceptable and not corresponding to partnerships, and the steps of the Belarusian side were inadequate.

Law enforcement agencies in Russia will continue to study materials on the supply of oil products in 2011-2012 under the guise of solvents from Belarus to third countries, the Deputy Prime Minister noted. According to Dvorkovich, this export scheme caused the damage to the Russian budget calculated by billions of dollars. “I do not exclude that if the facts are confirmed by law enforcement agencies, the issue of holding persons liable regardless of their citizenship will be raised,” the Deputy Prime Minister added.

In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister said that the volume of oil supplies to Belarus may be reduced in the IV quarter. He emphasized that the Russian side fulfills its obligations for the supply of oil in full, despite the decrease in the supply of petroleum products from Belarus.

The Russian government also instructed the departments to "more intensively" to engage in the risk of the import of agricultural products from Belarus into Russia, Dvorkovich said. According to him, Moscow also has complaints about the quality and safety of a number of products.

On Wednesday, Rospotrebnadzor expressed concern about the quality and safety of Belarusian food products. As reported on the website of the department, more than 30 percent of the samples recently have not met the established requirements. Later on the same day, it became known that Russia in September will reduce oil supplies to Belarus by 400 thousand tons. Transneft Vice President Mikhail Barkov explained such a decision by repair work on the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, the spokeswoman for the Investigative Committee of Belarus Pavel Travolko said that a criminal case could be opened against Suleiman Kerimov , the main shareholder of Uralkalia. The materials received in the UK give the grounds to put Karimov on the wanted list, the official added.

On Thursday, the lawyer Alexei Basistov, representing the interests of the Baumertner family, said that the defense of the CEO of Uralkali was entrusted to Belarusian lawyers, from whom a non -disclosure subscription was taken. Because of this, Russian lawyers have no official information. He is even unknown to him the procedural status of the client.

Basistov also said that the Belarusian authorities do not allow either lawyers from Russia or relatives to Baumertner. "Today, the Baumertner mothers refused a meeting with her son. She had already left Minsk," the lawyer said. The transfer from it was not accepted.