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Tue, April 7, 2026 astatine 7:33 AM CDT 1 min read
MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) - Global proviso disruptions caused by the warfare successful the Middle East person opened up caller commercialized opportunities for Russia, but price stableness successful the home marketplace remains a priority, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said connected Tuesday.
Russia, the world's second-largest lipid exporter, the largest wheat exporter, and a large shaper and exporter of fertilisers, is seen by galore experts as 1 of the main economical beneficiaries of the conflict.
"For our country, the existent concern - if we consider exclusively the economical aspects - creates caller opportunities to amended the fiscal presumption of export-oriented industries and to supply additional fund revenues," Mishustin told a government meeting.
"Our state has the capableness to summation overseas shipments of resources that are presently scarce owed to the Middle East crisis, oregon that whitethorn go scarce successful the adjacent term, including food-related supplies," Mishustin said.
Apart from lipid and gas, Mishustin noted that planetary supplies of urea, sulphur, and helium had been disrupted. Russia is a large shaper of each 3 commodities.
Russia indispensable support its ain domestic consumers from outer terms shocks, helium said, citing caller bans connected gasoline and nitrogen fertiliser exports arsenic examples of protective measures.
"Our top precedence remains protecting the home market," helium said.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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