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2015-08-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia destroys piles of banned Western food.

[NYT] MOSCOW -- Ramping up enforcement of a ban on European food imports, the Russian authorities on Thursday destroyed hundreds of tons of foodstuffs they said violated the proscription, instituted a year ago in retaliation for Western sanctions over Ukraine.

Following an order by President Vladimir V. Putin, officials threw huge piles of pork, tomatoes, peaches and cheese into landfills and garbage incinerators.

The frenzy, remarkable even by the standards of Russia's recent politicization of food supplies, was gleefully reported by Russian state television.

"You can see behind me cheese that was made nobody knows where, without labels," Yekaterina Mironova, a journalist on Rossiya 24 television, standing before a gigantic mound of orange cheese rounds, as a bulldozer revved its engine in the background.
Varoom, varoom, clank, clank, clank.
The offending cheese, she said, would be plowed into a landfill in the Belgorod region of western Russia.

News reports chronicled the destruction throughout the day, along the entire breadth of Russia's western border, from Orenburg in the south to St. Petersburg in the north.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 The offending cheese,

Yes, you are correct, indeed it would be a pretty good name for a band.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-09 06:40|| 2015-08-09 06:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, just wow. Think of the press they could have gotten just dumping the stuff in Caracas these days. So much for socialist solidarity. Meanwhile, the Russian oligarchs simply pay another 'import tax' to the appropriate authority to continue to dine as the rich always do.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 08:50|| 2015-08-09 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Sez Putin, "These small things that please us,
Like steamrolling decadent cheeses,
Must cause no lamenting
Cuz Russian fermenting
Wuz fit for our Orthodox Jesus."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-09 10:29|| 2015-08-09 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Nervenkrieg?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-09 11:15|| 2015-08-09 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 remarkable even by the standards of Russia's recent politicization of food supplies,

Nothing new for Russia in general, albeit somewhat new for the current gang in charge.

Posted by charger 2015-08-09 22:02|| 2015-08-09 22:02|| Front Page Top

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