It’s no longer enough for Russian border agents to stop banned food products from Europe and the U.S. from getting into the country—the government wants them destroyed.
Russia imposed sanctions last August banning beef, pork, fish, dairy imports and other food from the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway in August 2014, in response to Western sanctions against Russia following the annexation of Crimea and the escalation of the military conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
On Friday, Alexander Tkachev, the Russian minister of agriculture, proposed that instead of sending forbidden food back to the original sender, customs officers should destroy …read more
Source: Newsweek