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Russia targets Turkish economy over downed plane
While Moscow conspicuously ruled out any military retaliation against NATO member Turkey, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he had given ministers two days to work out “a system of response measures” in the economic and humanitarian spheres.
He said the broad punitive steps for what he termed “this act of aggression” could include halting joint economic projects, restricting financial and trade transactions and changing customs duties.
Measures could also target the transport and tourism sector after Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier backed a warning to citizens not to travel to Turkey, where nearly 3.3 million Russians went on holiday last year.
Russia also attacked Turkey's agricultural sector, tightening checks on food imports over alleged safety standard violations.
The move could have a major impact on the economy of Turkey, which over the past 10 months has exported agricultural produce and food worth just over $1 billion (940 million euros) to Russia.
In another move likely to infuriate Turkey, lawmakers from the Kremlin-friendly A Just Russia party introduced a bill calling for a maximum punishment of five years in jail for those who deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.
Turkey has always denied the killings were a premeditated attempt by the Ottoman Empire to wipe out the Armenians …. http://news.yahoo.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/russia-targets-turkish-economy-over.html
