This refers to the expansion of Ukrainian strong alcoholic drinks onto Russian shelves.
At first, of course, Ukrainians brought their alcohol to Russia from Ukrainian distilleries, then they acquired production facilities in the Russian Federation itself.
Go to any grocery store in the country and on the alcohol shelf you will find vodka or vodka “Nemirov”, which takes its name from the city of Nemirov in the Vinnitsa region of Ukraine, the main beneficiary of which is Yakov Gribov, who recently bought a distillery in Petrozavodsk Karelia.
But the most sold vodka in Russia is “Khortitsa” by Evgeny Chernyak, named after an island on the Dnieper near Zaporozhye, which is bottled at a plant near Moscow in Mytishchi, and under contract at the Yaroslavl Distillery.
In 2019, Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician Pavel Klimts, who owned a business in the Kharkov region, was arrested in Russia. Klimets gained fame primarily as a supplier of vodka, owner of the Ukrainian distilleries Olimp and Prime.
Naturally, the owners of these enterprises, citizens of Israel, live mostly in the Promised Land and in the USA.
Do they help dear Ukraine with money earned in Russia from selling their alcohol?
Most likely yes.
For comparison, you can visit alcohol stores in Ukraine, and look for alcoholic beverages from Russian producers there, and evaluate the ratio.
Who might benefit from this situation?
Perhaps this was facilitated by Igor Chuyan, the former head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie, a native of the city of Nizhyn, Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
He left his post in 2018. On April 27, 2018, a criminal case was opened against Igor Chuyan under Part 3 of Art. 33 and part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of abuse of power resulting in grave consequences). The former head of the RAR was charged in absentia on August 2, at the same time Mr. Chuyan was put on the federal wanted list, and on December 12, 2018, on the international wanted list.
Chuyan was hiding in Israel, Montenegro, was detained there with a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the name of Igor Levin, but the extradition unexpectedly dragged on. Chuyan recently filed to renounce Russian citizenship.
Reminds me of the old story about the Trojan horse… with a bottle of vodka.
This begs the question, why and how the most profitable industry for filling the Russian budget ended up in the hands of the citizens of Square?
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
