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Schumer, Moscow Spar Over Yogurt

GREEK TO ME

Blocked Chobani Olympic shipment.

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Some may say the U.S. government is hedging on Russia’s LGBT abuses, but at least the country is taking a stand on yogurt. The Russian government is reportedly blocking a shipment of Chobani Greek yogurt to American Olympians. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York--the state in which Chobani is produced--is brimming, “There is simply no time to waste in getting our Olympic athletes a nutritious and delicious food,” Schumer said in a letter to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “The Russian authorities should get past ‘nyet.'”

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