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Russia to keep grain export ban into mid-2011: Putin
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia would not lift its temporary ban on grain exports until after next year's harvest, extending the embargo until at least mid-2011. ...more
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