Russia is on course to open its first whiskey distillery after local officials in the region of Kaliningrad greenlit the project to build a factory.
Although hard liquor consumption in Russia is problematically high, production, exports and sales appear to have tailed off during the current financial crisis and whiskey imports have dropped heavily since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
The drink has never been wildly popular in Russia but distillers in Kaliningrad, Russia’s enclave on the Baltic sea, are hoping locally made whiskey will find fans at home.
According to the current estimations of Igor Kudryavtsev, owner of …read more
Source: Newsweek
