“Green Week”, Germany: results of the trip. (2015-01-23)

Representatives of “Barley, Malt, Hops & Beer” Union, on the Russian official delegation, visited the largest agricultural exhibition “Green Week” in Berlin (Germany) that was held from 15th of January to 19th of January 2015 and took part in the grand opening of the exhibition CUBE CENTER BERLIN followed by a gala concert. The next […]

Grain Expert Journal: the whole truth about Russian brewing industry (2015-01-20)

One of the famous agricultural journals “Crop Expert” contains detailed information about production chain “malting barley-beer”, including key problems of companies’ activity. You can find the article by reference.

The Federal Law: licensing and marking of beer-based beverages (2015-01-13)

The Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation drafted the Bill “Concerning Amendments of the Law “On State Regulation of Production and Circulation of Alcohol Products and Limiting of Alcohol Consumption”. Law formation was implemented according to provisions III, IV and VI of the Government Regulations approved in June 1, 2004 No 260. The Bill is […]

Brewers’ property liable to confiscation: who, what and why? (2015-01-13)

According to the request from representatives of the brewing industry to the Union to clarify details and confiscation procedure, we note as follows: 30.12.2014 the Committee of the Federation Council approved the bill drafted by the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation in order to fight illegal alcohol trade. The law came into force in […]

The Federal Law “Public grain warehouses”. (2015-01-12)

The Ministry of Agriculture drafted the Federal Law “Concerning public grain warehouses” in order to modernize the current legislation of the RF in terms of warehousing services accomplishment and circulation of storage certificates aiming to achieve key purposes of the agrarian policy, forming the effective agricultural market followed by high profitability of agricultural producers, creation […]

Address of the President of the Union «Barley, Malt, Hops & Beer in Russia» A. Mordovin. Union’s results 2014 and future plans for 2015. (2014-12-30)

Dear colleagues and members of the Union! On behalf of the Union «Barley, Malt, Hops & Beer in Russia» and on my own behalf I wish you all the best wishes for the festive season – Happy New Year 2015 and Merry Christmas. The outgoing year was marked by firework of various bright events that […]

Russian independent brewers and wine makers are uniting! (2014-12-29)

In December 26, 2014 the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Andrey Volkov convened a Conference “Current state and prospects of the raw-material base for malt and brewing productions”. Representatives of the Federation Council, the Federal Service for Alcohol Market regulation, regional executive authorities, branch unions and companies of the production chain “barley – beer” took part […]