VODKA RUSSIA
December 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWETHE RUSSIAN government has re-launched production of its two most famous vodka brands, Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya, after they had been suspended for several months. The resumption of sales follows a long battle caused by the break up of the Soviet Union. The row started when Soyuzplodoimport, the privatised successor to the Soviet food-and-drink import-export agency sold off the domestic rights to its vodka brands - its only marketable assets - for just Pounds 180,000.Production of other headline brands, including Starka Sibirskaya, Stolovaya and ...
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