The Bardot Foundation urged the Kremlin to step in to prevent "cynical and opportunist businessmen from seizing on the current confusion in [Russian] society in order to fill their pockets by exporting the most shameful of their traditions."
The French actress also took President Boris Yeltsin to task in a separate letter for failing to prevent "a death gulag of baby seals on the White Sea" and "the revolting butchering of reindeer on the Kheta river."
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