A shopping mall in Russia has had it with the U.S.-led sanctions against the country in the wake of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
So it’s inviting people to wipe their feet on an American-flag doormat.
“Why do they wipe their feet over us?” a Moscow resident tells Reuters. “They do wipe their feet over us, over our state. And can’t we wipe ours on doormats? Let us do it for God’s sake!”
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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