Russia bans McDonalds

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/25-07-2014/128162-mcdonalds_russia-0/

that is official, coming from now reinstated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda newspaper.

Russia bans cannabis symbolic
http://pravo.ru/news/view/108237/

i.e. any depiction of a cannabis leaf is considered illegal. Previously such bans were applied only to swastika and other Nazi images.