Russia’s empty shelves won’t just hurt the cheese-eating Moscow crowd
It’s a rainy afternoon in Moscow, and I’ve just had to placate a sobbing child who doesn’t understand why his beloved Džiugas cheese has disappeared from the supermarket. Now, as far as the suffering of civilians in east Ukraine goes, my toddler troubles are so laughably minute that it is embarrassing to talk about them. Yet these troubles are also a useful reminder that the continuing stand-off between the west and Russia over who gets to influence Ukraine will not have a merely abstract effect.
Since the Kremlin announced wide-reaching food import bans in retaliation against a third tier of western sanctions, Russian bloggers have been in uproar.… Seguir leyendo »