Vodka in a pill
November 29, 2009, Moscow
Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg's Technological University has developed a technique that allows turning of alcohol into powder and packing it in pills. The new technique can solidify any kind of alcohol, including whisky, cognac, wine and beer.
“We have developed a technology that allowed us to turn any liquid solution into powder,” the scientist was quoted as saying by a web portal. The technology has been tested on spirit of 96% purity.
RussianVodka.com
comment: This is strange since we used to doing vodka shots.
Russian Standard Vodka jumps 8 spots among the top 100 premium spirits brands worldwide for 2008
March 11, 2009, Russian Standard, New York
Russian Standard Vodka sold over 2.1 million cases in 2008 Worldwide and now exporting to over 60 countries.
Ranked 44th in 2008 versus 52nd spot in 2007.
Also Ranked Among the Fastest Growing Premium Spirit Brands in the World in 2008.
Russian Standard Vodka, the number one premium vodka in Russia, today announced it has climbed 8 spots to be ranked 44th on the “Top 100 Premium Spirits Brands Worldwide” list in 2008 by IMPACT magazine, a leading source for sales data on the global alcoholic beverage industry.
Russian Standard Vodka sold a 2.1 million 9L cases in 2008 on a worldwide basis, marking a 13% climb from 2007.
Additionally, for the third year in a row, Russian Standard was rated one of the “Fastest Growing Premium Spirit Brand” worldwide in 2008, demonstrating the brand’s continued expansion and success among vodka lovers worldwide.
“We surpassed the milestone of distribution to more than 50 countries in 2008, and have since added another dozen markets,” said Leonid Yangarber, CEO of Russian Standard Vodka USA. “Our continued climb among the top 100 premium brands is an important recognition of our success and reflects Russian Standard’s continued commitment to bringing Russia’s number one premium vodka to the world.”
About Russian Standard Vodka:
Russian Standard Vodka is the global leader in authentic Russian premium vodka. The Russian Standard vodka portfolio dominates the premium segment in Russia with a 60 percent market share and sales of over 2.1 million cases in 2008 in Russia and more than 60 export markets across Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Roustam Tariko, the founder of Russian Standard, introduced Russian Standard Original in 1998 as the first authentic Russian premium vodka. Russian Standard vodkas are made with only the finest Russian ingredients, conforming to the formula for vodka established in 1894 by famed Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev for Russia’s Czars. Two years after launch, sales of Russian Standard Original surpassed all imported premium vodkas on the Russian market, leading to broad international expansion and the launch of Russian Standard Platinum in 2001, IMPERIA Vodka, the company's luxury brand, in 2004, and Russian Standard Gold in 2008. www.russianstandardvodka.com
Russian Standard claims to be Russia’s largest producer of premium vodka (products sold for more than 200 roubles per 750ml). It expects total sales in year 2009 to be up 30-50%, helped by its entry into other markets.
The company plans to enter China, and exports will account for 70 to 75% of total revenue this year, up from 60% in 2008. He also said the company will not move production from Russia and will stick to its only distillery in St. Petersburg.
RussianVodka.com
comment: We can only confirm that this is THE vodka. The smoothest taste, and you'll remember it as the best vodka experience ever.
Production of vodka drops two-fold
February 16, 2009,
Interfax, Moscow
Production of vodka in Russia in January fell more than 50%. Above the main property of Russia looms a real threat. Government announced terrible for the heart of every Russian figures: sharply reduced production of vodka and alcoholic beverages.
Production of alcohol in January 2009 was 20.9% less than in January last year, and 52.8% lower than in December 2008. This is one of the lowest indicators of the food group of commodities - production collapsed more than a half.
However, experts urge not lose heart. According to Deputy Chairman of the Union of producers of alcoholic products these figures reflect the traditional drop of production for this time of year, as well as the trends and manifestations of the crisis.
The current global crisis deeply affects the fate of the alcohol industry. Additionally, since the new year alcohol producers have to pay to the budget of the country far more money than ever before in taxes and permits.
Population's purchasing power is falling rapidly, and people begin to save not only on food, but even on drinking. Those who previously could afford vodka for 150 rubles a bottle, move on to vodka for 100 rubles, the one who drank vodka for 100 rubles, move on illegal goods worth 50-60 rubles.
Meanwhile, as reported by the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia, the number of poisoning from counterfeit alcohol production reaches 42% in the overall statistics of fatal poisoning.
RussianVodka.com
comment: We only can hope that the crisis will pass and all Russians will have access to affordable and safe vodka.
Russian smugglers built vodka pipeline
September 17, 2008, Moscow
Eleven men have been charged with evading taxes by smuggling thousands of gallons of homemade vodka through a mile-long underwater plastic tube pipeline on the border between Russia and Estonia.
Why? In both Russia and Estonia vodka-drinking is a cultural essential, but vodka is much more expensive to buy in Estonia, with a bottle costing three times the price across the border.
According to prosecutors, the men had pumped at least 6,200 liters (1,360 gallons) of illegal spirit to Estonia using pipeline submerged in a reservoir and avoiding paying $86,500 in excise duty.
“It might sound weird and unbelievable but it is a very real criminal case,” police said. The smugglers face up to five years in prison, but their capture does not seem to have deterred others from building similar pipelines.
In 2006 there was an even longer pipe found, but the investigation found that it had not yet been used.
In 2004 an underground plastic pipeline was discovered in Lithuania that had been bringing vodka more than 2 miles across the border from Belarus.
RussianVodka.com
comment: This example of true Russian criminal
ingenuity got stopped because Russian authorities
take their vodka affairs very serious.
Monopoly on vodka can be introduced in Russia
November 11, 2007, Gazeta ru
Russian Federal Accounting Chamber proposes a monopoly on the ethyl alcohol.
Sources in the Court of Accounts confirmed that the agency actually put forward such a proposal.
The Court of Accounts reviewed the work of the alcohol industry in 2006 and in 2007, said the letter, and found the situation "unsatisfactory": vodka sales in retail in 2006, by 80% exceeded legally shipped by manufacturers (212 million gave against 135 million provided).
All these problems, believes the Court of Accounts, can be resolved "through the introduction of state monopoly over the turnover of ethyl alcohol." For this department proposes creation of a government corporation, which will distribute the entire amount of ethanol produced, including exports and imports. A excise duty, in the thoughts of officials, will pay only producers of alcohol.
The proposal of the Court of Accounts sent to ministries and agencies and the government requested to prepare a report to the President on this issue.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Once again Russia's government is trying to take vodka business under control. Even the Russian Tsar tried this before.
Half
of alcohol in Russia is illegal
June
22, 2007, RF Accounting Chamber
Russian Federal Accounting Chamber reported
that more than 50% of the total market of alcohol
in Russia is illegal product. Because of this
the government loses more than 45 billion rubles
(1.7 billion US dollars) annually, reported
the official press agency.
According
to the Accounting Chamber, the volume of legally
sold vodka and liquors in the 2006 total of
1.17 billion liters, a decrease of 21.6% from
2005. The average amount of alcohol products
sold through retail in 2006 was about 2.12 billion
liters. Analysts of the Chamber pointed out
that such large quantities of illegal alcohol
market can be attributed to price policies.
For example, the bulk of the price of vodka
are indirect taxes and charges - more than 70%
of the final price. Legal proceedings contribute
to the rising rates of increase in the price
of spirits, which combined with low purchasing
power of the majority of population leads to
increase in the illegal production of alcohol.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Russia's "black market" is
truly enormous. It was always like this, and
it looks like nothing has changed.
Russians
congregate over Internet, drink via USB shot
glasses
February
21, 2007,
Engadget com - (Via E-generator ru)
Russians utilize the power of the web to bring
alcoholics and social drinkers together in inebriated
harmony. Folks at e-generator ru, has
devised a USB shot glass to allow lonely, alcohol-needing
individuals to get their drink on while safely
at home.
While
we don't consider ourselves experts in Russian
culture, it's apparently not tactful to get
plastered solo, and while online drinking might
be stretching the rules just a bit, we're sure
those vodka-loving Internet dwellers aren't
complaining.
The
idea is to join a group of drinkers in an online
lounge, where the USB shot glass levels are
shown on each person's screen; once the go-ahead
is given, the folks turn up their glasses and
chug it down, ideally showing an empty glass
after a random smashing of keys somehow spells
out congratulatory phrases.
According
to the inventor, his goal is to enable anyone
who failed to find drinking company, join a
party arranged on the Internet.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Welcoming new technology and applauding
creative ingenuity, we still think that it's
better to drink in the company of real people.
Vodka com
domain sold for $3 million
December
15, 2006,
Reuters uk - UK (Reuters)
The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind
Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million
(1.53 million pounds) to acquire the vodka.com
domain, part of a bid to expand into the US
market, a broker said on Thursday. Russian Standard
Co. controls not only two-thirds of the sales
of premium vodka in Russia, but also owns Russian
Standard Bank, the country's largest private
bank.
RussianVodka.com
comment: We worth more!
'People's
vodka' urged for Russia
November
29, 2006, BBC News - UK
The
head of Russia's union of wine and spirits producers
has called on the country's lawmakers to legislate
for the introduction of "people's vodka". The
introduction of a cheap, but safe and regulated
drink, would help poorer Russians currently
unable to buy genuine vodka. Several Russian
regions have declared states of emergency recently
after a spate of fake vodka poisonings (last
year more than 40,000 people died after drinking
such liquids), and the worst-hit areas planned
to be the testing ground for "people's vodka",
or better, "social vodka".
The
Russian government says past attempts to impose
restrictions had always failed. Instead, tougher
state regulation of the quality of vodka has
emerged as the policy of choice.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Great idea! There is a serious need
for a safe and accessible alternative for an
average Russian vodka drinker.
US:
Russian Standard files Stoli lawsuit
October
24, 2006, Just-drinks com editorial team
Russian
Standard has launched legal action in the US
against “unfounded allegations” from Pernod
Ricard in the ongoing row over the authenticity
of Stolichnaya vodka.
RussianVodka.com
comment: This is not the first time that we
hear about a lawsuit concerning the right to
be called Russian Vodka. As far as we know,
in the past these kind of lawsuits were not
successful.
Donald
Trump launches Trump vodka
UPI
News Service, October
7,
2006
Donald
Trump has launched a new vodka brand called
"Trump Vodka". The first cases arrived at New
York's Kennedy Airport with tuxedoed porters,
a red carpet, and a velvet rope. Although trump
himself doesn't drink alcohol, Trump called
it "a major player in the vodka arena." Patrick
Kenny of Drinks America Holdings Limited said,
"There's nobody who markets better in the luxury
category than Donald Trump." A one-liter bottle
will sell for about $30 according to the Daily
News.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Our congratulations to Mr. Trump. We
all can be assured that this venture is going
to be success!
Russian
authorities discover vodka pipeline to Latvia
Russia
(AHN), October 4, 2006
Russian
customs officials in Buholovo near the Latvian
border have discovered a one mile long pipeline
that was pumping vodka to the other side of
the border. Police officers patrolling the border
said the tunnel had been laid six feet underground
by still unidentified syndicates to pump homemade
vodka across the border to avoid paying taxes
and other government regulations on the liquor.
RussianVodka.com
comment: This example of true Russian criminal
ingenuity got stopped because Russian authorities
take their vodka affairs very serious.
Russian
Standard Company unveils new $60 million distillery
in St. Petersburg
Russia,
October 1, 2006 (PRNewswire)
Russian
Standard Company, the number one premium vodka
company in Russia, today announced the launch
of its new $60 million state-of-the art vodka
distillery in St. Petersburg, Russia. At the
same time, Russian Standard Vodka announced
its plans to launch Russian Standard Original
in the U.S., across Europe and in select Asian
markets.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Our congratulations to Russian Standard!
The quality of Russian vodka will undoubtedly
improve, as the world markets reach.
Russian
industry grows 5.6% in August 2006
Rosstat
Russia, Sept. 18, 2006 (Interfax)
Russian
industrial output grew 5.6% year-on-year in
August... as did vodka and liquor production
- 8.2%.
RussianVodka.com
comment: More Russian vodka!
Bootleg
vodka kills hundreds in Russian city
BELGOROD,
Russia (UPI), September 13, 2006
In
one of the worst cases, almost 1,000 people
were poisoned in just two small towns in the
Belgorod region in central Russia. Critics say
the government's decision earlier this year
to introduce a new and expensive system of state
excise stamps led to the market being flooded
with potentially lethal vodka substitutes. Fraudsters
exploited in full measure the dramatic increase
in the prices of alcoholic beverages by monopolists,
putting relatively cheap, spirit-based mixture
in active circulation. The city warned people
about the danger, but some people evidently
did not believe the warnings. Prosecutors were
seeking to press criminal charges against the
bootleggers, who were still at large.
RussianVodka.com
comment: Bootleg vodka problem in Russia is
deeply rooted in poverty and overall difficulties
and hardship of Russian life, as well as rampant
corruption, degradation of drinking culture,
and recklessness of majority of vodka drinking
population.
Collapse
of Russia alcohol market: vodka can disappear
like whisky
MOSCOW,
July 19, 2006 (Itar-Tass)
