The Russian government has imposed a ban on the export of certain types of petrochemical products from the country outside the European Union. The restriction is imposed for three months and applies to the export of coal and oil gangs, toluene, orthoxylene, peroxylan, phenol. They are used, among other things, in the production of paint coatings for automobile, aircraft, ship and railway engineering, packaging for food products, flooring and insulating materials for cable products, in the medical industry, the document says.