Author: News Desk

Cliff Notes Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola and Brewdog beer on Russian shelves despite sanctions Kellogg’s cornflakes, Bonne Maman jam, Kent Crisps, Brewdog beer… these are the items on the supermarket shelves in front of me.  I’m in a branch of Azbuka Vkusa (or ‘Alphabet or Taste’) in Moscow, where the aisles look remarkably like those in a Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Waitrose. Russia is the most sanctioned Economy in the world, but here we are, more than three years into its supposed isolation, and the shelves are still stocked with Western goods. So how come? Many of the products on sale here are…

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