Russia bulldozes tons of food from EU to mark 1 year of Russian sanctions on food imports.
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[url]https://news.vice.com/article/russia-is-destroying-tons-of-western-food-to-mark-a-year-of-retaliatory-sanctions[/url]
[quote=Vice News]Russian officials took steamrollers and tractors to tons of seized cheeses, fruit, and other imported edibles Thursday to mark a year of retaliatory sanctions against Western foods.
[B]Even as the country's poor suffer the fallout of Russia's recent recession and badly performing ruble, President Vladimir Putin issued a decree to destroy the banned imports from countries that had imposed sanctions on Russia as the conflict in Ukraine continues, according to the Associated Press.[/B]
The move was met with resistance from protesters who created a petition calling for officials to instead donate the goods to the country's needy, which have been particularly affected by the sanctions that have steeply shot up the price of goods. The destruction of so much food in the face of public hunger has outraged many of the country's citizens.
[B]At least nine metric tons of contraband cheese were crushed in the Belgorod region on Thursday. Meanwhile, authorities are preparing to incinerate 20 metric tons of cheese in St. Petersburg and destroy 60 metric tons of tomatoes and peaches in Smolensk.[/B][/quote]
[B]Shit, I didn't do the most basic thing and use search, go here for the first thread on the subject.[/B]
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1480172[/url]
[QUOTE=Demeschik;48408650][url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1480172[/url]
possibly late?[/QUOTE]
Oh damn, I skimmed the first page after waking up and reading this.
My bad.
so wait, if a church sends food and missionaries to the poorer areas of Russia, will al that count as an import and be bulldozed?
[QUOTE=BFG9000;48409490]so wait, if a church sends food and missionaries to the poorer areas of Russia, will al that count as an import and be bulldozed?[/QUOTE]
if its from a country that sanctioned Russia as a result of the Ukraine invasion, yeah
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