Russia extends ban on Western food products

[webfact]

Russia extends ban on Western food products



MOSCOW: -- President Vladimir Putin has extended a Russian ban on food products from Western countries until the end of 2017.

The ban is in place “to defend national interests” and prohibits most food products from nations penalising Moscow.

It was particularly struck by European Union sanctions provoked by the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Last week, the EU agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia until January 2017, citing a lack of progress on a peace process to put a stop to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

While domestic producers have benefitted from the sanctions, they have had a negative effect on Russia’s economy with elevated food prices and a decrease in the quality of some products.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-30

[trogers]

Ahhh... The long queue lines to buy bread by democratic Russians...

[bark]

All Russian people need to live on is Vodka. They have plenty.

[mopar71]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

[Travel2003]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

The Freedom Fries name surely must have come from a 7 year old son or daughter of one of the staff members.

[Hammock]

Ahhh... The long queue lines to buy bread by democratic Russians...

Don't worry about Russians ,, Europeans will soon be living on bread and water

Edited June 30, 2016 by Hammock

[Ulic]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

But the French were proved correct. On top of that french-fries come from Belgium.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

But the French were proved correct. On top of that french-fries come from Belgium.

Oh, I thought they were British because the Aussies call them 'Pomme Frites'.........

[Srikcir]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

The Freedom Fries name surely must have come from a 7 year old son or daughter of one of the staff members.

Apparently coined by US Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC)

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

[MissAndry]

Yay, now we're out of the EU, Britain can trade with Russia.

Dear Vladimir, we have need for many cars, now we won't be buying from Germany any more.

Edited June 30, 2016 by MissAndry

[White Christmas13]

Yay, now we're out of the EU, Britain can trade with Russia.

Dear Vladimir, we have need for many cars, now we won't be buying from Germany any more.

Yeah they make plenty of them

[Travel2003]

Putin can take a lesson from America here.

When some in Congress got angry with France in 2003 they famously renamed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the cafeteria on Capitol Hill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Pretty stupid...but it was just symbolic and nobody starved.

Maybe Putin could slap on some classic Soviet-era labels on everything. Instead of starving his people this could help promote the good ol' days of sending tens of millions of Russians and other soviet citizens to the gulags in Siberia.

The Freedom Fries name surely must have come from a 7 year old son or daughter of one of the staff members.

Apparently coined by US Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC)

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

So I was not that far off.

[Travel2003]

Ahhh... The long queue lines to buy bread by democratic Russians...

In good Russian traditions, only the poor (and sometimes middle class) need to be patriotic and perform their bread queue duty.

Everyone is equal, but in Russia some is more equal than other.

[daveAustin]

Surely if they were serious they'd crank the gas pipe down a bit.

[Publicus]

Surely if they were serious they'd crank the gas pipe down a bit.

Putin hasn't ever said that about Europe.

Whereas the food cutoff involves Nato countries, Putin's pipeline reductions or cutoffs have involved Ukraine or against others due to pricing or payment disputes. The gas and pipeline stuff against Western Europe are the jibberish of Putin fanboyz only and not of Putin himself.

Germany has in fact rerouted some Russian gas to Ukraine to help 'em out from time to time.

As referenced above, Russians get to suffer a lot so they'd become used to it many hundreds of years ago. Russians are tough so they can take the punishment of sanctions and the outright reversal of GDP growth. Just ask almost any of Putin's population and they'll tell you they're tuff and to give 'em all we got.

As EU said when it imposed sanctions two years ago they would go through 2017 at a minimum and as pointed out in the OP the EU just voted to make it a definite fact. Russians can't get enough of their suffering so it's good to see the Putin fanboyz egg it on.