Hopes stir for Russia-Georgia export ban thaw
Hopes stir for Russia-Georgia export ban thaw
Dec 17, 2012 6
(Decanter) - Two developments the past week have stirred hopes for Georgia's wine producers, who have been banned from exporting to Russia for more than six years.
Russia banned imports of Georgian wine in 2006 after its military conflict with the former Soviet state, citing poor quality as the reason, while Georgia – which until had exported 89% of all its wine to Russia – denounced the ban as politically motivated, and illegal.
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