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Five years after sanctions Russian cheeses getting top marks

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Five years after sanctions Russian cheeses getting top marks

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Agence France-Presse

75 Views • Nov 27, 2019

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Hundreds of artisanal creameries have cropped up across Russia since President Vladimir Putin banned Western food imports in 2014. Elvira Kovtun made her first cheese in a pot in her kitchen outside Moscow in 2015. Kovtun, a housewife and mostly self-taught cheesemaker, eventually became so good that she and her husband decided to turn her passion into a business.