Russian law enforcement agencies keep seizing untagged shoes

Russian police have seized big batches of counterfeit shoes in St. Petersburg and in the Chelyabinsk and Novosibirsk regions. In Novosibirsk, for example, police officials seized 1,338 pairs of shoes that didn’t have the QR codes that became mandatory in Russia on July 1 to help wipe out counterfeit shoes ...

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