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In reply to the discussion: Russia bans lace panties [View all]scallywagy
(4 posts)57. What's the real strategy?
Taking away the desirable goods, even if they aren't domestically manufactured just suppresses the market. People don't buy more cotton undies because they can't get silk or Lycra. They just wear their old ones longer, that said one suspects the goal here is to get manufacturers to set up shop in Russia to meet demand, which is to say this isn' really about a ban on panties but an effort to bring the business of panties normally imported into a bona fide business in Russia (or at the very least propping up Russia's cotton business, to the consternation of Europeans) with whatever calculating tactics the domestic oligarchs can finagle ....
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2014/02/russian-women-protest-ban-lace-underwear
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Protesters Against Lace Panties Ban Detained While Wearing Underwear On Their Heads
bananas
Feb 2014
#7
No kidding, and someone needs to remind Putin that not even the Brokeback Mountain guys did that. nt
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#29
Sounds like High School best way I know to encourage lace panties or Victoria's Secret.
gordianot
Feb 2014
#12
This ban will apply to the whole Customs Union that Vlad wants Ukraine to join.
pampango
Feb 2014
#62