How Russia is turning into North Korea
The TelegraphIn truth, the disappearance of basic products and the rise of ‘speculation’ has more to do with panic-buying and fear of inflation than real, Soviet-era shortages. “Russians have absolutely no need to run to the shops and buy up buckwheat, sugar and toilet paper,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters last week. In another throwback to the Soviet era, Russia’s agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev has appeared regularly with news of harvests and boosting food production. The Borodaty Yezh cafe on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard produced a light-hearted edition of its fast food menu that featured a burger called “Brezhnev’s Kiss,” a variation on a Big Mac that features beetroot called “Babushka’s Love” and a hotdog called “Glav Myas,” after the Soviet meat production ministry. But Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia’s state duma, apparently spoke in deadly earnest earlier this month when he proposed that Russia should start its own McDonald’s-style fast food chain called Uncle Vanya’s.
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