Black market cheese dealers are springing up across Russia

Illicit Gouda and contraband Camembert are trading on the black market in Russia.
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The Russian economy’s in free-fall, in part due to Putin’s decision to ban imports of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy from the US, the EU, Australia, Canada and Norway, in response to Western sanctions in August last year.
And now it’s affecting the lactose-infatuated.
According to Business Insider , cheese has gone underground. Corner shops are becoming black market cheese dealerships.
One Moscow banker told the site: A sort of speakeasy scene for French and Italian cheeses evolved which was akin to buying drugs from 1980s bodegas in Brooklyn.’
He explained: ‘You wait until there are no customers around, approach the clerk. He takes you to the back room, shows you the goods, you haggle over the price, shove the bag in your pocket, hand over the cash and bounce. Except here you’re leaving the store with a ball of fresh Italian mozzarella…’
Presumably, all back-room transactions must be approached extremely Caerphilly.
According to the report, however, most Russians continue to buy into Putin’s message that the country’s economic woes have been caused by Western schemes to hurt Russia. The banker comments: ‘Russians are much less inclined to side with financial logic and more inclined to buy Mr. Putin’s emotional message.’
Only time will tell whether the current cheddar deficit proves to the final (cheese) straw.
 
Source: Metro

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Así lo expresó Domingo Possetto, secretario de la seccional Rafaela, quien además, afirmó que a los productores «habitualmente los ignoran los gobiernos». Además, reconoció la labor de los empresarios de las firmas locales y aseguró que están «esperanzados» con la negociación entre SanCor y Adecoagro.

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