{"id":32820,"date":"2025-05-29T17:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=32820"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:47:42","slug":"potato-shame-of-russia-imports-from-mongolia-due-to-deficit-and-failures-in-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/potato-shame-of-russia-imports-from-mongolia-due-to-deficit-and-failures-in-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Potato shame of russia: imports from Mongolia due to deficit and failures in the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia is trying to contain the rising price of potatoes by urgently importing them from other countries. After buying up supplies from belarus and sourcing additional shipments from China, russia still failed to cover the existing shortage \u2014 and has now started importing potatoes from Mongolia. In May alone, over 4,000 tons of the \u201csecond bread\u201d were delivered from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Even putin recently had to admit the potato shortage. russians are surprised that their country \u2014 which once exported potatoes to Mongolia \u2014 is now buying them from a nation that only began growing the crop on a large scale about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions, inflation, and a reduction in cultivated land have caused potato prices in russia to rise by 173% compared to last year. Economic pressures in russia are growing, and despite propaganda portraying the country as economically sovereign, in reality it cannot even supply its own population with basic food like potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia is trying to contain the rising price of potatoes by urgently importing them from other countries. After buying up supplies from belarus and sourcing additional shipments from China, russia still failed to cover the existing shortage \u2014 and has now started importing potatoes from Mongolia. In May alone, over 4,000 tons of the \u201csecond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}