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Twitter users have started the hashtag "My Sanctions" where they forbid Barack Obama from Russian vodka. Picture: AFP.

Vladimir putin meeting with barack obama

Russians impose joke sanctions on Obama

By Eyewitness News

The tongue-in-cheek campaign is in retaliation to sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Crimea crisis.

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