‘We are going to resume production within the next few days’, Lyubov Slepukhina, Production Manager of Yuzhno-Uralsky Spirtovo-Vodochny Zavod Ltd. (vodka distillery of Southern Urals located in the town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Region) said to UrBC representative.

In January 2006, Russian spirituous liquors producers, unable to acquire new federal excise duty stamps, had to suspense their operations.

‘At the moment, our vodka distillery is completing the bank guarantee for the new duty stamps. In addition, we are about to finish putting into operation the barcode equipment. So, regardless of any problems, the distillery will resume the production within one or two days’, Ms Slepukhina indicated.