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Data provided by Morgan Stanley showed that the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer would boost beer consumption. It estimated football fans’ impact on beer consumption at 2 percent. As a result, it expects that Russia’s beer market would grow during 2018, for the first time in a decade. The Russian Brewers’ Union confirmed that beer sales in Russia, which declined steadily over the past few years, could indeed grow in 2018. Kirill Bolmatov, Corporate Relations Director at Heineken Russia said:
To begin with, there’s no bad news. The excise duty didn’t rise in 2018, nor were there any new restrictions. Non-alcoholic beer made a substantial contribution, which is the most promising segment now.
According to the Russian Brewers’ Union, despite a decrease in beer consumption, sales of non-alcoholic beer grew by 5.6 percent from January to September 2017. Oraz Durdyev, Legal and Corporate Affairs Director at SUN InBev, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, pointed up:
Football can be of help as well. As a rule, during World Cups, beer consumption in a host country grows by about 5 percent. Largely, this is due to the established consumption culture in Western countries, because beer is always associated with football.
Pavel Filippov, PR manager at Efes Rus said:
In addition to that, the event will be in the summer, which is the peak season for brewers.
11 January 2018
TASS
Voices from Russia 
16 January 2018. MLK on the “Measure of a Man”
Tags: civil unrest, DNR, Donbass, Donetsk People's Republic, LNR, Lugansk People's Republic, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr, Novorossiya, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
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By this standard, the men of the DNR and the LNR in the Donbass are men indeed. They stood up when the situation required it. There are also many patriots in American-occupied Banderstan who resist the Uniate criminal junta, either as partisans or in many more passive (but still important) ways. The Americans are trying to prop up a minority… a feral and vicious minority that has a history of servile collaboration with foreign occupiers and brutal opposition to healthy national forces. The men of the Donbass show by their courage that they have “the measure of a man” per MLK’s statement. Our world is better for such people…
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