Tenth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

Since 2006, Russia has been banning food goods from different post-soviet countries, such as Georgian wines and Ukrainian sweets. In 2014, the Russian government banned food imports from the European Union, the United States, and Canada, and made a decision to launch the Import Substitution project which aims to support domestic producers. In contrast, the international Slow-Food movement promotes protection of traditional gastronomy and sustainable agriculture all over the world. This paper attempts to investigate how food politics can influence the development of national identity and how it relates to the idea of anti-globalism. The paper uses a combination of research methods, but mostly focusing on historical and legal analysis with a view to include statistical data. Historical analysis will focus on scholarly researchers, media and web sites. To address the research goal the paper explores the development of Russian international trade politics, the dynamics of “consumer culture” in Russian society, and the correlation between international Slow-Food movement and the Import Substitution Project in the Russian Federation. Overall, there are three key outcomes of the research. First of all, the dynamics of food politics in the Russian Federation was investigated in the first section of the paper. The second outcome of the paper is the investigation of dynamics of the “consumer culture” in the Soviet and Russian societies. The third outcome of the research is the exploration of the context of anti-globalism movement and its correlations with the Import Substitution project in the Russian Federation.