In Russia, on September 19, the decision of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow came into force to ban a website that sold foreign cheese prohibited by Russian sanctions.
According to court materials, the Moscow-Smolensk Transport Prosecutor’s Office monitored the Internet and found an advertisement on Avito (a Russian website for posting ads about goods, properties and jobs) for “soft cheese with Brie mold and Gorgonzola.”
The prosecutor’s office said that the seller offered to buy products that are prohibited for export from countries imposing economic sanctions on Russian entities and individuals.
In response to such sanctions, Russia imposed its own trade sanctions in 2014. These sanctions prohibited the sale of dairy products from countries such as the United States, European Union, Canada, Australia, Norway, Ukraine, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
The prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit against KEH eCcommerce, an Avito operator, who was found guilty of violating the law.
As a result, the court ordered the listing of information from the cheese advertisement as “prohibited for distribution throughout Russia” and added it to the list of websites with information “dissemination of which is prohibited in Russia.”
