Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports.

“We haven’t seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States,” Putin said. “If our foreign suppliers are unable or reluctant to meet our security requirements, we will use other sources.”

The Russians banned chickens from countries using chlorine in poultry processing beginning Jan. 1 2010. Putin made the Americans the odd man out saying that Russia was merely joining the European Union in banning, for food safety reasons, chickens from chlorine-using countries.

via Putin Says Chlorine in Chickens Unsafe – Food Safety News – Global Food Safety News & Information : Presented By Marler Clark LLP, PS.

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Yes, readers, believe it or not, here is what the darling of the Hollywood glitterati had to say about Haiti the other day:

“I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that’s what the United States should send,” Chavez said on his weekly television show. “They are occupying Haiti undercover.”

via Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid | Reuters.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti CNN — Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security. The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night.

via Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims – CNN.com.

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