September 22, 2004

A Day for Vodka


Image from Reuters
The other day I asked a friend of mine from Ukraine what he thought about Yushchenko. He said that when Yushchenko was Prime Minister a few years ago, they released a brand of vodka called Nedrigailovskaja, named after the region where Yushchenko was born. My friend said the vodka was still probably his most outstanding achievement so far (ha ha).

Then yesterday I saw this article on Reuters... Mikhail Kalashnikov, the retired Russian army general who invented the infamous AK-47 rifle in the 40s, has just released "Kalashnikov," a new vodka brand. Perfect! Where can I get some? Pity the label is in Romanic rather than Cyrillic characters.

By the way, Yushchenko went in front of Parliament yesterday and publicly accused Kuchma's government of poisoning him. He also made the accusation that killings had been ordered as part of the Ukrainian political process before. This is going to be an interesting election.

Posted by case at September 22, 2004 08:01 AM
Comments

because it involves vodka:
Crazy Juice
(pete, you aren't lithuanian by birth, are you?)

Posted by: jeremy at September 28, 2004 11:19 PM

Darn! I was going to email you about that vodka, but I figured you already knew about it.

Posted by: SarahM at September 23, 2004 11:39 PM

heh heh heh :p

Posted by: Deborah at September 23, 2004 07:00 AM

ehhhh... 40 years, last week... quantum mechanics says it's all the same anyway.

Posted by: jeremy at September 23, 2004 06:25 AM

Don't laugh... that's kinda what I looked like last week!

I gotta stop working so much...

Posted by: case at September 22, 2004 08:45 PM

Good lord, that looks like a picture of you in 40 years.

Posted by: jeremy at September 22, 2004 08:10 PM