Word: stolichnaya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traitor to the Motherland or anything, Boym says she prefers sake to vodka. But if it's going to be vodka, it's absolutely Absolut. "Because I like the name," explains Boym. Although when she's expecting guests or grad students she says she buys Stolichnaya, just to "live up to their expectations of Russian-ness...
...trip to Blanchard's in Alston will do the trick for either Absolut or Stolichnaya connoisseurs. Though Boym drops a little caveat, warning that "in Russia itself there is a real vodka crisis going on at the moment, with many counterfeits at the market and rising prices...
Never far from a bottle of Stolichnaya or a discounted Vivienne Westwood frock, Edina and Patsy are without sitcom ancestry. They aren't scatterbrained housewives or ambitious careerists or sassy working-class women struggling to make ends meet. They're single, well-to-do best friends of unadmitted age, who drug, carouse and couture-shop their way through life. Hardly ever do they tend to the pseudo-glam, fashion-world jobs they inexplicably manage to keep...
...ruble is not readily convertible to Western currency. PepsiCo, which currently produces 40 million cases of soft drinks in the U.S.S.R. each year, will more than double its number of bottling plants in the Soviet Union, from 24 to 50. The expansion will be financed by shipments of Stolichnaya vodka over the next ten years and the sale or lease of at least ten Soviet-built freighters and tankers...