BendiNewsTest: Putin Turns Russians into Locavores

While a government-sanctioned local food movement might be a distant dream for American locavores, it’s currently becoming a reality in Russia where President Vladimir Putin recently banned a long list of imported foods from the country’s stores. The move is a reaction by the Russian autocrat against countries including the United States, Canada and the whole European Union amongst others, which placed sanctions on Russia in response to the conflict in the Ukraine and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.