Teller Report

A bill on the import of scarce sanctioned goods was submitted to the State Duma

5/20/2020, 7:58:09 PM

Senators Konstantin Kosachev and Sergey Kislyak introduced a bill to the State Duma that gives the government the right to allow the import of scarce sanctioned goods into the country. The text of the document is published in the Duma electronic database.


According to the document, we can talk not only about vitally important goods, analogues of which are not produced in Russia, but also those that, due to special conditions, for example, high alert or emergency situations, fell into the category of scarce.

The authors of the project cite an example of counter-sanction against Kiev. According to them, the list of prohibited goods, the country of origin or departure of which is Ukraine or which move through its territory, includes articles of sanitation, hygiene and patient care items.

Earlier, the EU called for lifting sanctions that prevent states from receiving medical care.