Yes, we have no salt
In an old Soviet-era joke, a man rushes into a shop and demands of the clerk, "Do you have any meat?"
"No," comes the reply, "this is where we don't have fish. You want to go next door, where they don't have meat."
Russians consider shortages of basic foods part of a bygone era. But in the past week, it seems like d vu all over again.
The hand-scrawled note outside the tiny grocery store here