well what was the noun's by prime minister dmitri medvedev is that russia will ban the imports of food stamps from a number of countries that supported sanctions against russia. these nations are the e.u. countries the united states australia canada and norway and what this will mean is that they'll be restrictions put in place import into russia of root vegetables some dairy products and fish. this ban will last for a year that's what they've said so far and another move also ukrainian airlines will be plans for a russian air space now that's also covered by the same the same ban for one year now dmitri medvedev in announcing this said that it actually gave it give russian industry and agricultural sectors the chance to put right some of the problems that exist in those sectors already and to take up the slack themselves he also said that there would be if their global partners of russia's global partners acted in a responsible manner then well these sanctions could go away this ban on imports could go away so that's the world looks like at the minute we're going to see a ban on some

. >>> russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has announced a food ban on foods items in the west. this is in retaliation for sanctions against his country over the crisis in ukraine. >> translator: taking countermeasures are not so easy. but we are obliged to do this. we have repeatedly said there would be no gain in enforcing their sanctions. >> medvedev said the ban covers all meat, fish, and dairy products from the united states, canada, the european union, norway, and australia. he said the ban will last for one year. japan was among the countries that imposed sanctions against russia, but its foodstuffs were not included in moscow's action. medvedev said that the russian government is considering a prohibition on u.s. and european air carriers flying over russia to and from asia. the move would force western airlines to change their routes as many of their flights pass over russia's siberia. the european commission has expressed regret over russia's ban. >> the european union regrets the announcement by the russian federation of measures which will target imports of food and

condi and i met a couple of times, she more often than i did, with dmitry medvedev.i came away with my sessions with him saying, this guy gets it, he understands why russia needs greater rule of law, why it needs to be more democratic, and why it needs to move more towards the west. i think it's one of the great tragedies of russia, which seems to happen with great regularity in russia, that all of that potential was essentially wiped away by putin's desire to resume the presidency. so sanctions are, in some ways, they can be very narrowly focused, and in others have very broad effect. the narrow focus, i think, has been in going after specific individuals around putin and those we think have been involved in these activities in ukraine, the security services and so on. i think the tough issue, and first of all i agree with the sanctions in place one russia at this point, but the key is, going back to condi's comments, how do you bring pressure on putin without breaking russia? dysfunctional russia or a russia that faces grave internal problems for a long time to com

dmitry medvedev's twitter account has been hacked. i am resigning, he didn't announce, but he didn't announce. i'm ashamed by the act of the government forgive me. later he says of vladmir putin, i wanted to say this for a long, long time, you are wrong. crimea is not ours, please retweet. this is actually a play on crimea is ours which is the hashtag and a group in russian humty dumpty has claimed responsibility for that. i think he is also a amateur photographer and he was going to retire to take up photography full-time. anyone seeing those tweets didn't believe them for a second. they don't ring very true. >> putting that russian humpty dumpty together again, i would imagine. another photo that has gone viral of france's finance minister. >> he was on holidays. he was on a island and these photos came out of him on a robot all on his lonesome. the french verb tends to sort of mean you're in difficulty. >> you're struggling. >> you're really struggling. as we would be told later on, the figures for the economy for growth are not so

placed upon them are meeting fruit or vegetables dairy products and fish for their prime minister dmitry medvedev said this ban. of around a year would be in place for a year you could be under review should there blow ballpark. what he called reasonable east towards russia there's an awful lot of money at stake here over twelve billion euros to trade is done exporting food from here in europe to russia already countries searches finland. contacted brussels and said look if we're going to miss out on this type of trade because of sanctions you've put in place we need compensation our farmers need compensation from brussels to make up the shortfalls particularly in finland in the dairy markets they could stand to lose up to one billion euro from the finnish economy elsewhere we've heard statements coming out across from across europe here in germany the trade union that deals with wholesale trade and foreign trade said that this could have a detrimental effect on the german economy in greece the main opposition party said that well the fact that the greek government the current greek government wa

moscow is now preparing its own response to the sanctions and that's according to prime minister dmitry medvedev there are reports it is considering a limiting or banning european flights from crossing its airspace to asia artie's katie pilgrim takes a look at the potential consequences they are now at the peak of the holiday season and people wishing to travel to asia from europe could find themselves caught up in all the sanction kyle so in response to european sanctions grounding one of russia's low cost airlines russia is now considering shutting down its major transit routes for european headlights so you saw as you can see from this map we've taken recently from flight traded twenty four dot com the flights up a full three russia's siberia right back because it shorts out of that for cheap hour which ultimately means a cheaper ticket for the consumer if the walls to close this route your holiday flight from. europe to asia will be several hours long and it's already going on right now in fact the european allies will need about four thousand kilometers to their routes which equates to an e

meats fruit vegetables dairy products and fish and the bomb that was announced by prime minister dmitry medvedev this is set to to last for one year another reaction here in europe as you can imagine anybody working in the agriculture sector they're quite concerned twelve billion of course across the e.u. block it's an awful lot of money to lose from your from your economy here in germany the trade union that deals with foreign exports and wholesales has said this could put the german economy at risk especially the agriculture sector in any of the sectors linked to the transport of those foodstuffs in the way mia they're apparently putting together a plan to put forward to the the e.u. demanding compensation for the money that they're going to loosen their economy from this ban. being able to export things into russia and finland finland could perhaps be the worst affected nation they do a lot of trade when it comes to dairy produce with russia around twenty five percent of all of their agricultural trade is to russia they could loose it's estimated up to one billion euros so huge amount of cash

or prime minister dmitri medvedev has confirmed that all imports into russia of beef pork cheese poultry and fish from those countries that backed sanctions against russia and no longer going to be allowed so that's a ban on all of those things coming in from the e.u. the u.s. australia canada and norway you know in another move what's been announced on thursday transit for air travel between ukraine that would have had a transit stop off in russia is now no longer going to be allowed to enter russian airspace so that means if you're going to fly from say kiev to hong kong and you have a layover in moscow that flights not going anywhere right now now. also the prime minister also said that this was a unique chance with regards to the the ban on imports of agricultural goods from europe and elsewhere that this was a unique chance to solve the problems within russia's own industry and agricultural sectors he also said that there was a. if their partners around the world if their western partners were to take a more reasonable stance regarding sanctions against russia that the import ban co

it is transferred to his prime minister who becomes president, dmitri medvedev. retreats somewhat and becomes prime minister but everyone understands him still to be the most powerful person. oil and gas prices are still very high. suddenly, in 2012, there are .treet demonstrations people now want even more. that's what happens in society. middle-class becomes the middle class and they enjoy the fruits of that but -- guess what? elections,ransparent real democracy. what set off the anger of the middle class was the perfunctory announcement, "i'm back. i'm running for president again. medvedev is out." it is called the castling maneuver. it is hard-core authoritarianism or worse. people were angry coming out to the streets in tens of thousands. he's intended. he's angry. -- he is incended. >> angry because he is coming back? >> in a preemptively nondemocratic way. they have been promised to them for decades now. some of them are quite conservative or nationalistic. there are no real leaders, no ideology. putin wins. he comes back. he crushes them. lot withhis poli

condi and i met a couple of times, she more often than i did, with dmitry medvedev. i came away with my sessions with him saying, this guy gets it, he understands why russia needs greater rule of law, why it needs to be more democratic, and why it needs to move more towards the west. i think it's one of the great tragedies of russia, which seems to happen with great regularity in russia, that all of that potential was essentially wiped away by putin's desire to resume the presidency. so sanctions are, in some ways, they can be very narrowly focused, and in others have very broad effect. the narrow focus, i think, has been in going after specific individuals around putin and those we think have been involved in these activities in ukraine, the security services and so on. i think the tough issue, and first of all i agree with the sanctions in place one russia at this point, but the key is, going back to condi's comments, how do you bring pressure on putin without breaking russia? a dysfunctional russia or a russia that faces grave internal problems for a long time to

we have dim itemry dmitry medvedev. vladimir putin was holding security briefings about sevastopol recollects and has met with the crimean leaders. if the crimeans wanted a display from the russian government that it takes them and their causes seriously, this is it. >>> a research analyst at the royal united services institute for defense and security joins us from london. thank you for joining us. what do you think vladimir putin is up to at the moment? >> vladimir putin has a difficult balancing act that he needs to keep up. for him, his domestic topularity ratings are -- popularity ratings are important. he stakes importance on crimea and the separatists in ukraine. because the separatists in eastern ukraine are being pushed back, he's under pressure to intervene militarily or disown them, which is why he's giving a display of faith towards crimea, shoring up support for what he's akieved so far. >> you say it's helped him domestically, but not the country, it's having a disastrous effect on the run of cash leaving

dmitry medvedev made the announcements covering imports of meat, fish, fruit, vegetable, and product from australia, canada, european union, norway and the united states. the ban will last a year. it's doubtful russia will see empty shovels and stores reminiscent of soviet times, but russia imports 40% of needs, and will likely drive up prices for ordinary russians, it's meant to show vladimir putin's resolve to open a new front against the west. >> the trump card may be that russia may be able to give up cheap energy. >> that's his calculation, he's right. if he sends droops in europe will get tough. >> vladimir putin has high approval ratings at whom and is known not to respect nuance. >> he group up in the kgb where the strong survive. it's a battle for rest eem and face. that is the -- prestige and face. that's is the danger. it's important for vladimir putin to be seen as stopping up for the americans. >> regardless of what happens next, it will not likely retare tattered u.s.-russian relationships. >> that relationship has been growing colder. the crisis raised tensions to leve

russian prime minister dmitry medvedev said today that moscow is answering in kind. >> ( translated ): all the measures have a solely retaliatory character. we didn't want such a development of events. we sincerely hope that our partners economic pragmatism will prevail over petty political reasons, and they will think, and not try to frighten and limit russia. >> reporter: notwithstanding the kremlin's defiance, president obama argues russia is hurting. he spoke at a washington news conference last night. >> sanctions are working as intended in putting enormous pressure and strain on the russian economy. the economy has ground to a halt. somewhere between $100 billion and $200 billion of capital flight has taken place. >> reporter: what's more, u.s. officials said today, russia is, in effect, imposing sanctions on its own people, by banning the main sources of imports that account for one-quarter of food consumption in russia and a much higher percentage in the major cities. today, a top u.s. treasury official left open the possibility of more u.s. sanctions if russia does not re- th

condi and i met a couple of times, she more often than i did, with dmitry medvedev.i came away with my sessions with him saying, this guy gets it, he understands why russia needs greater rule of law, why it needs to be more democratic, and why it needs to move more towards the west. i think it's one of the great tragedies of russia, which seems to happen with great regularity in russia, that all of that potential was essentially wiped away by putin's desire to resume the presidency. so sanctions are, in some ways, they can be very narrowly focused, and in others have very broad effect. the narrow focus, i think, has been in going after specific individuals around putin and those we think have been involved in these activities in ukraine, the security services and so on. i think the tough issue, and first of all i agree with the sanctions in place one russia at this point, but the key is, going back to condi's comments, how do you bring pressure on putin without breaking russia? dysfunctional russia or a russia that faces grave internal problems for a long time to com

announced at a televised cab bet meeting in the kremlin by russia's number two, prime minister dmitry medvedevussia instituting total ban on food, fish, poultry, cheese, milk and dairy products from the european countries united states of america, australia, canada and kingdom of norway. >> reporter: russian officials are trying to blame the foodstuffs including $5 million a year from florida are toxic and harmful to consumers. most analysts see this as pure move of revenge by russia. revenge for sanctions imposed on russia by the u.s. and european union for russia's continued support of rebels fighting in ukraine. patti ann? patti ann: steve, who will be hurt the most? >> reporter: well the u.s. exports one billion dollars a year in agricultural products to russia. that is less than 1% total. so the impact on u.s. farmers is going to be nominal but the real impact could be reverse of what the russians intend t could spike inflation in russia. the head of the u.s. poultry council says this could end up, if it really happens, increasing the cost of protein for russian consumers. russian officia