There’ll be PLENTY of food on the shelves… Russia CAN feed itself. The West will regret this… Russia IS turning away from globalisation.
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In August 2014, Russia decided to impose an embargo on imports of certain products from those countries that had previously tightened sanctions against Moscow because of the situation in the Ukraine. It banned imports of vegetables, meat, seafood, sausages, dairy products, nuts, and fruit from Australia, Norway, the USA, and the EU. However, there won’t be a gastronomic deficit in Russia.
Shrimp
The ban covers almost all species of shrimp, but there’s a pleasant exception… prawns in brine with spices in sealed packaging. When one considers the fact that other types of seafood are under the ban, this news is quite good.
Olive Oil and Olives
Olive oil and olives in cans aren’t included in the embargo. Therefore, Russian gourmets won’t have to forgo Greek salad and dressings based on olive oil.
Cheese and Dairy Products
Lovers of cheese will see the most significant “casualties”… foreign sellers will no longer be able to deliver it to Russia. The ban doesn’t cover fresh mozzarella or frozen items that contain it. According to customs regulations, the popular Italian cheese fell into the category of “other foods”. Therefore, the embargo doesn’t cover it. However, domestic dairies already produce mozzarella… it isn’t “Mozzarella di Bufalo”, but it does just fine on pizza. Meanwhile, there’s good news… many chain stores were able to stock up on cheese, which should last for six months or a year, if the embargo goes on that long. The embargo covers other dairy products; Russians won’t see Finnish butter or German pudding and yoghurt on the shelves.
Sardines and Sprats
Legendary Riga sprats won’t disappear from Russian shelves because the sanctions cover only fresh and frozen fish. Sprats are canned products, so, we won’t lose sardines and anchovies, either.
Jam, Marmalade, and Preserves
The embargo on the import of fresh fruit doesn’t apply to imports of products prepared from them. Consequently, jam, marmalade, and preserves will remain on the shelves, both European and American.
Chocolate
Despite the ban on dairy products, chocolate and products made from it aren’t included under the sanctions. The customs service classifies all chocolate products as “cocoa products”; therefore, it doesn’t prohibit their import into Russia.
Sunflower Seeds and Peanuts
The sanctions cover nuts, but peanuts are not affected. However, this only applies to raw peanuts. Seeds shall remain on the shelves.
Alcohol and Baby Food
Alcoholic beverages, including wine, didn’t fall under a complete ban. That’s true of baby food, too. In addition, there’s no ban yet on confectionery products, juices, and canned goods. One should note that Swiss products, including cheeses, aren’t on the blacklist. Sanctions haven’t affected food imports from Japan.
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Don’t forget, so far, the embargo will be in place for only a year. The Russian government reserved the right to revise it or to take items off the blacklist, but that’d happen only if the foreign states involved reconsider their policy toward Moscow.
13 August 2014
KakProsto!
http://www.kakprosto.ru/kak-888173-otvetnye-sankcii-rossii-kakie-produkty-ne-ischeznut-iz-magazinov
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Lyashko Led Fascist Extremists in Scandalous Commotion at UPTs/MP Parish in Kiev Oblast
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The Rejection of the Sermon of the Uniate Kuntsevich in Byelorussia
Ilya Repin
1893
We face the same threat today… the Vatican hasn’t changed its spots (but ordinary RCs didn’t make the decision, kids)…
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Watch the first 30 seconds carefully, look at the vehicles… they’re commandeered civvie off-road jobs; the jeep has improvised DIY Homer n’ Jethro “armour-plate”. More on that later… but I want to you know this… watch the first minute, even if you watch nothing else.
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Controversial Rada People’s Deputy O V Lyashko led extremist toughs from the Svoboda and Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko factions in disrupting worship and mocking the clergy at a UPTs/MP parish in Kiev Oblast. The intruders dared to lay hands on and desecrated the altar. R A Silantyev, head of the Human Rights Centre of the Worldwide Russian People’s Council (VRNS), told reporters that fascist extremists poured tomato juice on and otherwise abused Fr Vladimir, the rector of Holy Protection-St Tikhon parish in Chervonaya Motovilovka (Fastov Raion). Under threat of violence, the priest asked for a chance to go to Russia. The intruders accused him of being pro-Russian and “supporting terrorists”. This pogrom occurred after only a day after the election of Metropolitan Onufry Berezovsky as First Hierarch of the UPTs/MP. Silantyev said, “The meeting of the higher organs of the UPTs/MP and its Sobor on 13 August took place in an atmosphere of relative calm. However, they’re not afraid to attack ordinary priests. There have already been more than 60 attacks on clergy and they’ve destroyed churches, they’ve set many churches on fire and damaged them with artillery fire and killed two or three priests”. This number includes incidents incurred during the fighting in Novorossiya. The new head of the UPTs/MP, Metropolitan Onufry, has already appealed to junta strongman P A Poroshenko to stop bullying and intimidation of canonical clergy by junta security forces.
15 August 2014
RT
http://russian.rt.com/article/45544#ixzz3ATDEh4HK
Editor:
Some of my sources in the Rodina tell me that civil order, the rule of law, and legitimate government no longer exists in the Ukraine. It’s become a lawless kleptocracy, with those with arms in control of the streets, as the above vid showed. Therefore, what Poroshenko thinks is irrelevant… he doesn’t control the streets, the fascist toughs do. Remember, the fascists demanded and got key posts in power ministries after the coup. I think that the Americans wanted it that way… since the fascists only have minority support, they’d NEED the Americans in order to stay in power. The fact that they’re anti-Semitic to the bone doesn’t bother Victoria Nuland… it tells you much about neocons, doesn’t it?
The fascists are attacking the canonical Church, just as they did in the 1990s. Back then, the Komsomoltsy stood up for the real Church… I shall remind all that the ROCOR stabbed the Mother Church in the back, supporting the CIA’s efforts to undermine the canonical Church (Victor Potapov was a major actor in this). Today, the First Family apparatchiki desperately try to hide this, but it happened… the ROCOR DID ordain Valentin Rusantsov and Agafangel Pashkovsky as bishops. The ROCOR did cooperate with soulless slimers like John Herbst (who tried interfering in the reconciliation of the ROCOR and the Mother Church… with the aid of certain ROCOR clergy who’ll remain nameless).
Today, we have quislings in our midst. There are signs that tell you who’s a Church stalwart and who’s a semi-Uniate traitor. Firstly, if a priest wears Uniate-style vestments, not Russian-style vestments, he betrays his opposition to Holy Rus and support of the Unia. Michael Dahulich pushes this innovation, but he’s a semi-papist (he was a willing and receptive pupil of the Jesuits at Duquesne) who had a major fracas with the late Metropolitan Nicholas Smiško… Dahulich slunk off to the OCA (who was dumb enough to take him). Any priest who wears such vestments shows his open antipathy to Holy Rus, to the Rodina, and to our received Russian Traditions, customs, and usages.
Secondly, if they spell “Kiev” as “Kyiv” and if they say “Volodomyr” in hillbilly dialect instead of “Vladimir” in proper formal usage (it’s like calling “Joseph” “Joey”… it lacks all taste, education, and class… it’s nekulturny to the max), you know that they harbour semi-Uniate tendencies. Some say that Mollard has such… he certainly has a deacon, one Roman Ostash, who’s known to have pro-junta leanings. Dahulich is a Uniate in all but name (unfortunately, his influence on young clergy at St T’s will take years to root out completely)… don’t let his “Pro-Life” posturing fool you… he’s anti-abortion, NOT Pro-Life in Cardinal Bernadine’s sense. SVS is totally pro-Uniate… New Skete’s always been soft on Uniatism. Mind you, that doesn’t mean that they’re outside the Church… it means that they hold questionable opinions. Remember, we don’t believe that people or institutions are infallible… we’re not papists. However, it’s safe to say that there’s treason in the upper reaches of the Church, whilst the lower reaches are still solid. That’s saved us before (the Iconoclasts, the Ferrara-Firenze kafuffle, and the Unia of Brest… in all three cases, bishops became apostates and betrayed the Church, but the people kept the Faith and saved the Church).
It’s time for ordinary folks to save the Church yet again. How, I don’t know… but that’s what history teaches us. Remember, we have the examples of Patriarch St Germogen of Moscow and St Mark of Ephesus, and of the Apostates Kirill Terletsky and Iosafat Kuntsevich in front of us. It’s up to us to choose which one to follow. You KNOW which one I chose, don’t you? Keep it focused, the times are evil.
BMD