A Russian consumer rights charity is appealing to the country’s High Court against President Vladimir Putin’s decree to destroy food imports which have been banned under sanctions against Europe, independent news agency Interfax reports.
The decision to destroy food seized by Russian authorities at the country’s borders began being widely implemented earlier last week, causing public outrage across Russia. A ban on importing food from countries which supported the EU’s trade sanctions on Russian businesses over the Ukraine crisis have been in place in Russia since last summer.
Now the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Consumer (OZPP), a Moscow-based organisation …read more
Source: Newsweek
