Auction to sell food to Russian military to be held in Moscow

MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow is due to host what will be Russia's first ever open auction to sell food to the country's armed forces on November 16-18, the forces' Rear Service said on Wednesday.

The auction will be held during a national exhibition entitled "Russian Producers and Supplies for the Armed Forces," the service said in a release sent to Interfax-AVN.

The exhibition will bring together more than 200 enterprises from 39 Russian regions and companies from Belarus, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.