Russian food embargo against West has no chance of succeeding

Wealthy Russians won’t lose access to delicacies to which they’ve grown accustomed

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s food embargo against the West will ultimately be little more than a symbolic move — it won’t work in practice because it interferes with Putin’s pet project, the Eurasian Economic Union.

Before he was elected for his third term in 2012, Putin said one of his priorities would be the creation of a powerful economic union of post-Soviet states — and any others than might care to join.