29/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - Russia on Thursday lifted its embargo, decreed following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, on animal-based products imported from France, Ireland and some regions in the Netherlands. The restrictions remain in place for Great Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, as well as for three provinces of the Netherlands. Moscow had already relaxed June 1 its embargo on products from Belgium, Luxembourg and some regions in the Netherlands and Ireland. Its borders had been...