MOSCOW -- Boris Akimov's cellphone, which quacks like a duck, started to sound like a whole flock soon after President Vladimir V. Putinimposed sweeping food sanctions barring many Western imports last August.
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In August, Russia banned all beef, pork, fish, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway for one year, retaliating for Western economic sanctions imposed after the Kremlin destabilized Ukraine.