Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said today that one of his government's priorities is to create conditions for increasing food production for the Russian market, which met with the approval of the public, which is in the mood for a boycott of Western products, according to polls.
Russia has already banned imports of Australian beef, responding to Kambera's decision to support sanctions against Russian officials, Russian media reported.
Convinced that the "jeans and chewing gum revolution" has already passed, the head of the Institute for Globalization Problems and Doctor of Economics, Mikhail Delyagin, proposed closing McDonald's restaurants and banning the sale of hamburgers.
"The production and sale of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and meals at McDonald's, as well as similar American fast food, is harmful to health and should be prohibited for hygienic reasons," said Deljagin.
The Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, joined a public initiative for the production and consumption of domestic food, instead of "cheese from New Zealand and meat products from military warehouses in South America".
"We were born in a great country. The time has come for us to understand and accept it with our minds, hearts and souls, and not to look back at the State Department and Brussels. Russians will finally know the taste of bread and meat," said Kadyrov.
Media polls showed that as many as 81 percent of Russian citizens, who belong to the younger post-Soviet generations, are convinced that they can live without "Ukrainian candies and Polish potatoes", that is, from their own food industry.
Among the respondents over 45 years old, 32 percent expressed concern over the suggestion that foreign food goods could be replaced by Russian ones.
In large Russian cities, the vast majority of products are imported, so it is easier to find Norwegian salmon in stores than Russian.
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