Cheese. Archival photoMOSCOW, Apr 25At the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, Latvian food manufacturer Cesvaines piens decided to rename «Russian» cheese to «Tilsiter», according to the lsm.lv portal. the company has long wanted to change the name of the product, but the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine «put an end to any doubts.»Arla has suspended the sale of kefir due to packaging associations with RussiaAccording to the portal, most Latvian dairy companies call «Tilsiter» «Russian». According to Cesvaines piens, in the Soviet Union «Russian» cheese was made according to the recipe of «Tilsiter». Despite the name change, the cheese will be produced according to the same recipe, the portal notes. Among the cheeses Cesvaines piens «Russian» is the most popular. The main export markets for the company are Ukraine, Israel, Poland, Finland and others. Russia is not included in the list of these countries. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» «: the Bulgarians ridiculed the attempts of the West to please the Ukrainians in everything. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for the «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces are inflicting strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
