Meet Russia's unlikely poster boy — and cheesemaker — for its embargo on Western goods

The World | Sep 17, 2014
Jay Close has built houses, jumped out of planes, and cooked food for the Rolling Stones. Now he's a cheese maker in Russia who's reaping the benefits of Moscow's embargo on Western food imports. And this American is awfully popular right now with his Russian customers and the media.

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