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«Putinka» was one of the most successful vodka brands in the second half of the 2000s in the Russian Federation, by the end of 2004 the brand entered the top three best-selling on the Russian market. [8] During the heyday of the brand in 2004-2005, about 40 million liters of «Putinka» were sold annually.
This is a list of vodka brands. Vodka is a distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol , sometimes with traces of impurities and flavorings. Vodka is made by the distillation of fermented substances such as grains , potatoes , or sometimes fruits or sugar.
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Smirnoff (/ ˈ s m ɪər n ɒ f /; Russian: [smʲɪrˈnof]) is a brand of vodka owned and produced by the British company Diageo.The Smirnoff brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), but its modern incarnation traces back to the 1930s, by American liquor distributor Heublein. [1]
Russia also introduced new laws restricting when and where alcohol could be sold. [1] These policies have resulted in a considerable fall of alcohol consumption volumes. [ 5 ] According to a 2011 report by the World Health Organization , annual per capita consumption of alcohol in Russia was about 15.76 litres of pure alcohol , the fourth ...
The Knightsbridge-based department store said its Beluga vodka stock has been removed from sale. Harrods admits ‘mistakenly’ selling expensive Russian vodka Skip to main content
The marketing claims that, "In 1894, Dmitri Mendeleev, the greatest scientist in all Russia, received the decree to set the Imperial quality standard for Russian vodka and the 'Russian Standard' was born", [9] or that the vodka is "compliant with the highest quality of Russian vodka approved by the royal government commission headed by Mendeleev in 1894."
Stolichnaya (Russian: Столичная) is a vodka made of wheat and rye grain. It originated in the Soviet Union in 1938. There are two versions of the vodka: the version found outside Russia is made in Latvia, while the version found inside Russia is made there.