the head of the joint grain company sergei levin says this will not be possible. we're going to at this point the intervention stock has nine million one hundred forty thousand tons of grain the intervention stock could be used differently depending on the situation last year and in the beginning of this year the country had excessive amounts of grain the intervention stock put pressure on the internal market that's why it was necessary to export this grain but the situation has changed drastically we cannot talk about excessive amounts of grain on the internal market now we are saying that we have a necessary safety net so we are not talking about exporting the intervention stock any more what we are talking about is the need to decide which of the internal consumers it should best be given to in other words to which of the affected regions it should go in the first place and in what scope this decision must be made by the government i think it will happen as ministers approve said within the next two weeks. what is russia's current storage capacity but some here