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It's Thursday, August 7th, 2014. From slate to its the gist, I'm Mike Pasca. Russia retaliates,

flips the US the bird, or at least it's flipping its policy on US birds and meats and cheeses and

arugula. As part of escalating tensions between Russia and the west of Vladimir Putin has banned food

imports, food imports from the EU Australia Canada and the US. Russia is the United States' second

largest market for chickens. Although the Russians always mock US chickens as inadequate as compared

to the hearty Russian stock, is Russia playing chicken with the US? Or is it more like Russian roulette?

Some ABC World News tonight reporter will hope to think of when they report that banning imports

will likely hurt the Russian people more than it hurts the west. Well smaller countries like

Denmark, which is Russia's major supplier of foreign beef, will feel the bite, feel the bite.

You could use that too, network news correspondent. The BBC surveyed a bunch of regular Russians

about this ban and they all said bring it on. Yuri Alexandrov of St. Petersburg, Russia said,

Disensions mean not much at all. Most day-to-day food can be sourced locally, that's sourced locally,

and most of the time we buy locally produced meat and vegetables anyway. Look, I'm not going to do

anymore Russian accents. There are those who argue I didn't just do a Russian accent, but I'll

quote another guy. Almaz Nizamutanov of Ufa, Russia, did not in fact say Ufa. He said,

this will be a stimulus for our farmers to grow more and expand their production of food.

I think people will start to grow their own vegetables, apples, and animals for meat in their gardens.

Nizamutanov very likely did not go on to add. And after forced locomorism they'll start growing

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