From geopolitical adversaries to covert foreign plots, Russia seemingly sees malign influences lurking everywhere. But according to a prominent pro-Kremlin activist, one of the country’s more underappreciated threats comes topped with cheese — pizza.

On Tuesday, Vitaly Borodin, who heads the Kremlin-aligned Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Foundation, called on Russian schools and universities to remove pizza from their cafeteria menus, branding the dish as Western “soft power in a cardboard box.”

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