Economics
Sanctions Blowback in Russia Targets Burgers to Movies
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It’s unlikely the U.S. president will be shopping on First Aeroportovskaya Street in Moscow anytime soon. Just in case, Magazin Myod, a small store selling honey and beeswax, has a sign on its door saying, “Sanctions: Barack Obama is prohibited from entering.”
With penalties imposed by the U.S. and Europe for Russia’s takeover of the Crimean peninsula starting to reverberate through the economy -- albeit in small ways -- the issue has become a focus of the national conversation.