As most Russians make do with a life without the European cheese that has been banned from their country, residents of Siberia's Altai region won't have to thanks to a small agricultural renaissance in their own backyard. In the small village of Solonovka, Alla and Alexander Kokorin have this year begun producing and selling their own goat milk version of the creamy French classic Camembert. "We wanted to eat these cheeses, and so we decided to make them ourselves. It's very simple," Alla Kokorina told The Moscow Times on Thursday.
The Kokorins' new venture coincides with Russia's one-year ban on cheese and other food products imported from the European Union, a response to Western sanctions against Russia over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis. Food lovers across the country were particularly dismayed by the loss of European cheese, for which Russian agriculture offers little substitute. Russian politicians, meanwhile, lauded the ban as a window of opportunity for Russian agriculture to pick up the slack without competition.
But for the Kokorins, sanctions and the food ban had nothing to do with it.
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INC News, 06/11/2014
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