According to the President of the Russian grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky, traders of grain the Railways denies "in 100% of cases". At present, Russian exporters are in a difficult situation: "a record export potential" in 40 million tons of grain observed on the background of the inventory higher than last year almost twice. The situation for exporters was compounded by prohibitions and restrictions imposed by Turkey and Egypt.

Moreover, the harvest in 2017 is also expected to be high, which can lead to falling prices in the domestic market and losses of grain in storage, Zlochevskiy says.

Earlier, Reuters reported that from April, the Railways ceased to agree on the majority of applications for cargo transportation in Latvia. The reason for this cited was the failure of the Baltic countries to support the construction of the pipeline "Nord stream-2". In the Railways denied the introduction of such restrictions.