It was late on a Monday afternoon at the drunk tank in this Moscow suburb, but it could have been any day, at any hour, at any similar facility across this land. People...

It’s a cliché because it’s true: Russians love their booze. The word for the national drink, vodka, is in fact a cutesy version of the word for water. The...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called time on the country’s vodka tipplers, saying alcoholism had become a “national...

What’s in a name? Plenty, if you are Jimi Hendrix’s relatives. A vodka bearing the image and name of the late great guitarist Jimi Hendrix - and aptly...