Russia has reportedly asked its neighbor Kazakhstan to increase egg supplies to Russian retailers, , after President Vladimir Putin personally apologized for soaring egg prices.
According to the Kazakh government, the Russian deputy prime minister had raised the matter in talks with his Kazakh counterpart Serik Zhumangarin, who in turn ordered the Kazakh agriculture ministry to look into it.
The price of eggs in Russia rose more than 40 percent last year and the Moscow government has said it will exempt 1.2 billion eggs from import duty in the first half of this year in order to address the problem.
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