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The increase in the size of subsidies for agricultural products exports by the countries of European Union "requires political inquiries", said Russia's Agriculture Minister Aleksey Gordeyev to a meeting with local media in the Republic of Chuvashia Friday.
"We are not only badly worried by this issue, but we are hurt and bruised", the minister was cited as saying by ITAR-TASS news agency.
"Let alone the fact that EU countries subsidise their agriculture in dozens of times more heavily than we do, they go so far as to try and win the Russian market and to rip from us our traditional markets in the third countries," he continued.
According to him, the size of EU subsidies per tonne of exported grain currently rises to $12. In such a way, he said, "EU makes us uncompetitive on the world market, including that of North Africa".
He added that inside the EU each kilogramme of meat was subsidised at 25 percent, of butter - at 50 percent.
"Taking this into account, we must assume protective measures in imports more strongly, adequately and without embarrassment," believes the head of Russian farm authority.
Also, he believes, at the talks on WTO accession which are currently underway, Russia is in an unfavourable position and is forced to concessions.
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