Russian activist takes on Putin in 'food fight'

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Olga Savelieva leads online petition asking Russian president to drop his order destroying smuggled food from Europe.

Russian activist Olga Savelieva is taking on President Vladimir Putin, and she wants the world to know she is not afraid. The Moscow native is the author of an online petition demanding that Putin reverse an order to destroy tonnes of smuggled food from Europe, and instead redistribute the seized edible products to millions of hungry Russians.

"You can never make me afraid of anything, if I know that I am doing something right," Savelieva told Al Jazeera. We don't have enough food. So it is not right to destroy them. People are actually dying because they don't have food to eat," said Savelieva, leader of a movement roughly translated from Russian as "Don't destroy food. I'm alive."

The Russian Church, normally an ally of Putin, has also joined in opposing the order, and two parties in the Russian parliament, KPRF and Spravedlivaya Russia "confirmed" that they will support the petition, said Savelieva.

Savelieva said she suspects that by issuing the order, Putin is more intent on showing "how strong" he is, and less concerned about his own impoverished countrymen. "They are doing it just for publicity. They want to show that they are strong, and they want to punish other countries."


As of August 20, Russia's food safety agency reported that 606 tonnes of fruits, vegetables and animal products have been destroyed.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/russia-olga-saveliev-food-vladimir-putin-150822140415722.html

[GummyBearz]

1. Damn

I thought there was going to be an actual food fight like we had sophomore year in HS

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2. Borsht stains the table linens. nt