Russia
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Moscow, Belgorod (Central European Russia), Volgograd (South), Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg, Kostroma and Ryazan are declared GMO free zone.
News from the CIS Alliance for Biosafety (English)
Russia still remains GMO-free. According to the official information there is no growing of GMOs in Russia for commercial purposes. So far the Federal Environmental Assessment Commission has not adopted any commercialised GM varieties for agricultural use. IIt is prohibited to import of meat and meat products derived from GMO fed animals is banned, but at the same time it is legal to import GM-feed.
60% of food import contains GMOs (Monastyrskiy, 2004).
Organisations and institutions active on GMO
Eremurus Club / The CIS Biosafety Alliance (English/Russian) GMO-free-Caucasus (English/ Russian/Georgian) Greenpeace Russia (English)
Irina Ermakova (English)
All-Russian Association on Genetic Safety International Socio-Ecological Union (English)
Presentations
GMO-free Moscow, by Lyudmilla Stebenkova, Moscow-Duma, Planet Diversity Conference, May 2008: 
Audio File (mp3, 3 MB, English) 
Presentation (pdf, 1,3 MB, English)
GMO free Regions in Russia, source: biosafety-russia
Legal documents
Law On State Regulation Of Genetic Engineering (1996, English).
Consumer Law (December 2004 г. – GMO in food products content must be labeled, threshold is not mentioned).
Law On State Environmental Assessment (1995)
Law On Protection of Environment (2002, GMOs are subject to a mandatory environmental assessment).
Veterinary-Sanitary Requirements of Agriculture Ministry (1999, ban on import of meat produced from GMO fed animals)
Political and strategic documents: Ecological Doctrine of Russia (August 2002); Priorities of State Biosafety
Russia did not sign Cartagena Biosafety Protocol.
Other background information
GM-Free food to be labelled in Moscow (Feb 2007) A brief overview of the Russian Federation GE-free perspective, by Victoria Kolesnikova - Eremerus
GMOs in Russia, by Victoria Kolesnikova - Eremerus, January 2005
US Department of Agriculture: Annunal Agricultural Biotech Report
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