Russia “has no plans” to restrict grain exports this season, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said on his Twitter page in response to a question from a user of the social network.

Russia barred all cereal exports in August 2010 as a drought seared fields and kept the ban in place until July 1 of last year.

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