By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia has more than doubled its agricultural exports over the past decade, despite the Kremlin’s tit-for-tat ban on food trade with the EU imposed in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture told TASS on August 7. Europe was a major food trade partner, but after the imposition of the first sanctions in 2014, Russia broke those ties and began to pour investment into developing the sector. Agricultural production grew by a third (33.2%) during the same period, while agricultural exports have grown 2.6-fold. In August 2014, Russian President …