Russian Jews get kosher vodka

Moscow - Russia's Jews have found a way of getting into the spirit of the country's favourite vice by producing a ranged of kosher…

Moscow - Russia's Jews have found a way of getting into the spirit of the country's favourite vice by producing a ranged of kosher vodkas, the daily Kommersant reported yesterday.

Four brands are already available at a price slightly above the normal rate, the newspaper said. The drink is being produced at a factory in Birobijan, the autonomous Jewish region set up during the Stalin era in 1934.

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