Putin orders destruction of smuggled Western food

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Source: AFP

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree ordering the destruction of Western food smuggled into the country in breach of an official embargo.

Moscow last year banned a slew of food products from the West in retaliation for biting economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

The decree says that banned food products that are smuggled into the country must be destroyed from August 6 this year.

The embargo has seen truckloads of delicacies, from cheese to pâté, stopped at the border, with allegations swirling that products are being re-labelled in neighbouring ex-Soviet countries and imported illegally.

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[JoeyT]

1. Kind of cutting off his nose to spite his face.

Destroying the stuff that rich people want is just going to piss them off and weaken his hold on power. Besides, no one believes it's actually being destroyed anyway. It's just being rerouted to a different address.