Russia's Agriculture Minister said on June 27 that Moscow had considered banning imports of ice cream from the European Union and some other countries in retaliation to Western sanctions, following calls to add a number of items to a Russian food import embargo.
The Moscow Times: Russian agriculture minister rejects calls to ban EU ice cream
Russian schoolgirls eat ice cream while standing underneath a monument to Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in Stavropol on May 19, 2010 after being sworn into the Communist Young Pioneer youth group.
