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Harvesting rice grain in the Krasnodar region of Russia.
Russia

Russia turns to bartering

The country’s agricultural companies explore trading chickpeas for rice and mandarin oranges with other Asian countries to get around international sanctions. The Kremlin has put together a guide for such transactions and is confident that bartering ‘will increase competitiveness’

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