President Vladimir Putin appointed a regional governor from southern Russia to head the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday in an apparent bid to galvanize domestic production, which has failed to take advantage of reduced competition ushered in by a 2014 Kremlin food import ban.
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A woman looks at packages of buckwheat on the shelves of a supermarket in St. Petersburg on Nov. 24.
