By Will Stewart for MailOnline As beef from the West disappears from Russian supermarkets, the Kremlin is urging people to eat Siberian reindeer instead. Schools and hospitals in Chukota - a far-flung region close to Alaska where football tycoon Roman Abramovich was once governor - are to be supplied from local herds to replace American imports. The move comes as a McDonald's outlet in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, and a Burger King in Krasnoyarsk, are the latest to be targeted by the Russian authorities in what is seen as punishment for Western sanctions. Russian officials have said that reindeer should replace western beef and chicken due to economic sanctions
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Officials want customers to buy traditional Russian delicacies instead of beef
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US firms are also being hit as part of the growing trade sanction war
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McDonalds and Burger King in Siberia have been forced to close by officials
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Local TV stations claim that Russian reindeer meat is 'ecologically clean'
@placeholder outposts of US businesses such as McDonalds have been closed due to the ongoing dispute