Food embargo can cancel in Greece, Hungary and Cyprus, said the Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Nikolai Fedorov.

"We are actively exploring, what are the civilized capabilities of a positive response to their proposals", - quotes the words Fedorov "Interfax". The Minister said that "it is undesirable to create problems in relations with Brussels" to these countries.

Earlier, the Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev said that there was an oral order to study the possibility of lifting the embargo against Hungary and Greece.

Later, the press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the conditions under which Russia could allow the importation of selhozhimia from Greece. According to him, Russia, according to WTO rules, can not make exceptions for Greece in the condition of antisanti taken against the entire EU. However, as noted by the press Secretary of the head of state, "in this case you could elaborate scheme is not direct deliveries, and deliveries of raw materials when the investment here, in Russia, in the creation of food enterprises".

In early March, the Deputy Minister of agricultural development of Greece Panagiotis Sgouridis invited the representative of the Russian Ministry of agriculture Alexei Alekseenko to lift the embargo on key national industry products - peaches, strawberries, oranges, rotting in warehouses due to the lack of market. In addition, Greece would like to enter the Russian market with the supply of animals and reproductive material (plant and animal).

Introduced in August of last year, Russian authorities embargo on the import of products from Europe completely eliminates the importation into the Russian territory of agricultural products, raw materials and food.

During this time, according to monitoring data of the Ministry of agriculture, the most expensive beef and cheese. According to the information on February 18, relative to the base price (as of August 11, 2014) beef rose by 11.2%, poultry - by 6.2%, pork - by 2.4%.