The Economist: The bonfire of the vans of cheese
A handout photo released by the food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor shows a bulldozer crushing boxes of cheese outside the Russian southern city of Belgorod on Aug. 6.
Soviet news programs were often recently filled with cheerful reports of ever-greater harvests, even as store shelves remained stubbornly empty. Modern Russia's shops are full, but its news broadcasts recently have been dominated by ugly images of the destruction of food smuggled into Russia from behind the lines of "the enemy" - Europe, America and their allies.
