Arrangement of Putin – outrage in Russia over food destruction – Süddeutsche.de

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• At the behest of the Russian President Putin foods are tons of destroyed from the West.
• The food is of a import ban of the Kremlin affected
• The import ban applies in response to Western sanctions -.. which in turn were imposed because of Russian intervention in the Ukraine-war

yoghurt from Germany, red wine from Italy or cheese from France: Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that hundreds tons discovered by Customs foods are burned from the West. A corresponding decree entered into force on Thursday. With the controversial adoption of the Kremlin reacted to the illegal import of food from the EU and the USA. The import ban is a response to Western sanctions against Russia in the Ukraine crisis.

Throughout the country, agricultural supervision of fruits and cheeses that have a ton of destroyed reported. A wave of indignation is the result. Shaun Walker, Moscow correspondent of the British daily Guardian spread via Twitter Pictures of cheese in landfills, which should be the result of Putin’s order.

anger over Putin arrangement

On the campaign platform change.org cried alone on Wednesday more than 200 000. Signatories to on to better distribute food to the needy. “Why should we destroy food that can be distributed to war veterans, pensioners, the disabled, large families and victims of natural disasters?” So the question on change.org to be sent to Putin and his government.

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The confiscated by Customs foods should be used to the to compensate suffering from the rise because of the import ban prices population, is the requirement.

criticism even from loyalists

Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov was forced to react. He presented to journalists in Moscow the value of the petition in question – the signatories would not “traceable identified”. But many critics of the action have the very well done publicly. Among them is the chairman of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, who called the destruction of food an “extreme measure”. He suggested to give the food of the Orthodox Church, to distribute to children and orphanages. Even “our friends in Donetsk and Lugansk” in the territories occupied by Russia regions in the Eastern Ukraine could use the food.

The TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, usually a friend of the government, wrote on Twitter that he could not understand that a country “that went through the cruel hunger during the war and the terrible years after the revolution,” could destroy food. The consumer advocate Alisher Sachidow warned in radio station Kommersant FM that the government should look at the 18 million people who live below the poverty line. “These people need the meat.”