To spite Europe, Russia has buried cheese, incinerated pork and crushed nectarines. Now, it is turning its attention to the Dutch and hitting them where it hurts most: flower imports.
Amid heightened tensions, especially over the Dutch investigation into the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster, Russia has announced that it may halt imports of Dutch flowers because of concerns that they are infected with pests.
And in a dramatic demonstration of intent, inspectors from Russia’s sanitary watchdog last Tuesday burned a shipment of Dutch chrysanthemums at an airport using what appeared to be a homemade torch.
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