“Money, like vodka, turns a man into an eccentric,” Russia’s great playwright Anton Chekhov once wrote. Now it turns out Russia may have too much of one and not enough of the other, as exports of the nation’s favorite spirit hit a 10-year low.
Russian exports of vodka and other alcoholic beverages dropped by a staggering 40 percent over the course of 2015, according to Russian national business daily Kommersant, the worst export rate for Russian liquor since 2005.
The country’s main vodka exporter is still Roust, the company that carries Russian Standard vodka among other brands, however a source inside …read more
Source: Newsweek
