Russia eats a lot of low quality apples nobody else wants. And those apples just got a lot more expensive. Putin has already put Russia on course for a deep recession. More economic misfires like this and Russia is looking at a 1990s style depression.
Bullcrap. I am actually on the ground there and the price is actually lower than it was a couple a weeks ago. I can pick Turkish, Chinese, even Japanese Fuji brand for cheap, not to mention those growing in my backyard for free.