CHISINAU, October 9 (Itar-Tass) - Moldova resumes its wine exports to Russia.

“On Monday we began to issue trademarks to economic entities that export their wines to Russia,” the director of the agriculture agency Moldova-Vin, Valery Mironescu, told reporters.

He said the wine exports were resumed after an accord reached by the Russian and Moldovan presidents at the CIS summit in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe and after a top-level meeting of the Euro-Asian Economic Cooperation Community.

Russia’s oversight service Rospotrebnadzor banned imports of Moldova’s wines in last year’s March.

The measure adversely affected Moldova’s economy, as 80 percent of the republic’s wine exports were to Russia.

Moldova and Russia agreed to resume the wine exports in this year’s June. Experts of Rospotrebnadzor have checked about 15 Moldovan distilleries, after which the agency’s chief and Russian Chief Sanitarian Physician Gennady Onishchenko said that 258 out of 301 tested Moldovan-made wines could return to the Russian market.

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