Danish-Swedish company Arla, a major manufacturer of dairy products, has suspended the sale of kefir. The product was sold in a package with the domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. The company considered that such an image is associated with Russia and may now be inappropriate, Rambler writes
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European company stopped producing kefir due to associations with Russia
The Danish-Swedish company Arla, a major manufacturer of dairy products, has suspended the sale of kefir. The product was sold in a package with the domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. The company considered that such an image is associated with Russia and may now be inappropriate, writes Rambler. . According to Arla communications manager Carolina Stark, the product will soon return to the shelves, but in a different package. In early March, the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra decided to remove a performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture from the program as it might be “unacceptable at this time”. Earlier, the author of the course on Dostoevsky, writer Paolo Nori, said that the leadership of the University of Milan Bicocca canceled the planned course of four lessons dedicated to the great Russian writer.