Russia will hopefully lift a ban on pork imports from European Union countries by March, Hungarian Rural Development Ministry state secretary Endre Kardevan said at the Prodexpo trade fair in Moscow. Russia’s food safety agency will carry out reviews of 21 Hungarian pork exporters next week, Mr Kardevan said. Russia banned the pork imports after an outbreak of African swine fever in Lithuania at the end of January. Twenty-one Hungarian companies are showing at Prodexpo this year. They are joining some 2,300 Russian and foreign food and farm industry companies.