Here’s the List of Foods Russia Won’t Import From Other Countries

Earli­er this week, Mo­scow an­nounced a year­long em­bargo on im­por­ted food products from coun­tries that have im­posed sanc­tions against Rus­si­an com­pan­ies and people, prompt­ing some Rus­si­ans to (half)jok­ingly bid farewell to their fa­vor­ite treats on so­cial me­dia.

The Rus­si­an gov­ern­ment pub­lished the com­plete list of goods on its of­fi­cial web­site on Thursday. The food ban ap­plies to the United States, European Uni­on, Canada, Aus­tralia and Nor­way. Here’s what’s on it:

• Beef (fresh, chilled, or frozen)
• Pork (fresh, chilled, or frozen)
• Poultry (fresh, chilled, or frozen)
• Dried or smoked meat
• Saus­ages
• All fish
• Crus­ta­ceans, a cat­egory that in­cludes crab, lob­ster, and shrimp
• Milk and dairy products
• Ve­get­ables 
• Fruits
• Nuts
• Cheese

All the banned im­ports are ba­sic staples, which means that Rus­sia can source them from oth­er friend­li­er na­tions (like the former So­viet re­pub­lics), or boost its own do­mest­ic food pro­duc­tion. Still, a year is a long time to go without French cheeses or Bel­gian chocol­ate, and Rus­si­ans are head­ing to gro­cery stores to stock up on for­eign goods they’ve been eat­ing since the col­lapse of the So­viet Uni­on.

While the ban has the po­ten­tial to hurt U.S. com­pan­ies with Rus­si­an trade deals, the re­stric­tions will likely hurt Rus­sia too. Rus­sia im­ports about 25 per­cent of its food, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures re­por­ted by The New York Times. Of that, about 75 per­cent comes from the United States and Europe. Putin seems to fi­nally be listen­ing to the West, people joke, be­cause he is the latest to sanc­tion Rus­sia.

The food ban is be­ing touted as a point of na­tion­al­ist­ic pride in Rus­sia: See, we don’t need the West to sur­vive! A sim­il­ar ban in 2010, of U.S. poultry im­ports, was giv­en the same mes­sage, es­chew­ing the days of the early 1990s when the first Bush ad­min­is­tra­tion sent over Amer­ic­an chick­en to feed a hungry people fa­cing a dire eco­nom­ic situ­ation. Then and now, re­li­ance on West­ern coun­tries for the ba­sics is something Putin wants to for­get.

But judging from this list, for­eign booze is fine.

This story has been up­dated.