Sentence examples for banned vodka from inspiring English sources

Though he was exiled to Siberia for this sort of criticism, Chernyshevsky's argument was sustained by his revolutionary disciple, Lenin, who banned vodka during the early years of the Soviet Union.

He said: "The sanctions don't ban vodka, but every entrepreneur's task is to make money, and he won't risk his money so your English consumer will have Russian vodka".

He didn't ban vodka but made it hard to get by  restricting ​hours of availability and supplies.

"Maybe they'll ban Russian vodka tomorrow, who knows?" Russian company Roust, which owns the Standard brand – controlling around 60 per cent of the export market – also saw a decline of 29 per cent in 2015.

Lloyd George would have happily introduced outright prohibition, were in not for his advisers pointing out that the banning of vodka in Russia had been a flashpoint for the Bolshevik revolution.

Are they using cheap vodka banned in most countries over fears it will make you go blind?

"Hopefully, this would lead to not just Russian vodka being banned, but looking at the brands that will be sponsoring the Winter Olympics [who will know that] unless they make a stand, then their products will get banned".

When alcohol was banned after the revolution, the vodka continued to flow for a while at Leon's -- from 7-Up bottles.

For many Russians, beer is seen as little more than a soft drink, which is why it is not uncommon for people to drink beer in the morning and why beer was not even included when restrictions on alcohol advertising, including a ban on vodka commercials on television, were first adopted in 1995.

Yet Russia is likely to remain a booming market for brewers.Liquor ads have been banned from TV since 1995, but beer regarded by vodka-hardened Russians as practically a soft drink has not hitherto been regulated in Russia.

When he was banned from drinking on a film set, legend has it he injected oranges with vodka and ate them during his breaks.