Before it filled modern cocktails, vodka had a surprising start. Its story stretches far back in history, with roots you ...

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If you've ever watched a movie like "The Hunt for Red October," which centered around Soviet-era Russia, you no doubt picture a lot of serious-seeming vodka drinking when you think of drinking Russian ...

With the EU’s sweeping import ban now fully in force, even German tourists face confiscation and fines for carrying a single bottle of Russian vodka. The iconic spirit has become a geopolitical ...

Russia is considering sharply increasing import duties on beer and spirits from countries it designates as “unfriendly,” ...

Owning one of the world’s most successful vodka brands but having to file for bankruptcy is bad enough. For that to happen while Vladimir Putin nurses a vendetta against you? One could say the person ...

Russians are guzzling vodka like never before, even as exports of Russia’s national beverage are drying up. Kazakhstan is now the only large market left for Russian-produced vodka. Economic sanctions, ...

(Reuters) - Russia's finance ministry has added the Russian Standard Group companies to a list of "economically significant organisations" and launched an arbitration case over their foreign corporate ...

If you're traveling through the massive, historically rich country of Russia, prepare to drink vodka. After all, one of the secrets about vodka is that it's derived from the Russian word for water. In ...

A piece of carpet with a logo of Stolichnaya, a brand of Russian vodka, is marked with black tape during a news conference at Micky's nightclub in West Hollywood, California August 1, 2013. Bar owners ...

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