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Russia’s Beer Nativism


Nationalist activists are showing their love for Mother Russia by destroying foreign beer as a way to promote domestic food products in the wake of the self-harming food import ban that the Kremlin introduced as a counter to Western sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine. The London Times reports:
A group of ultra-conservative Cossacks, spearheaded by a rock star, have marched into a supermarket and ripped apart cans of “unpatriotic” booze.In an apparent response to western sanctions, Stas Baretsky, 43, a former vocalist with the Moscow-based band Leningrad, joined the Orthodox Union of Cossacks in their campaign of destruction in St …read more

Source: The American Interest

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