Washington Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin plans to launch his own beer brand in Russia with a producer owned by Arnest, a group that has rapidly expanded by buying the Russian businesses of departing Western companies. The OVI range will be produced by Bochkarev Breweries and is expected to go on sale before the end of 2026, the Kommersant newspaper reported Monday. It will include a classic lager, a lower-alcohol lager and an alcohol-free beer, priced at about 100 rubles ($1.18) per can. The venture brings together one of Russia’s best-known…
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Moscow has the money, St. Petersburg has the pride Inside a rivalry shaped by history, snobbery, and two very different ideas of home Russia’s most award-winning restaurant is leaving St. Petersburg for Moscow, and the reaction tells you rather more about the relationship between the country’s two capitals than it does about food. For eight years, we Petersburgers have taken pride in Birch, a celebrated fine-dining eatery, twice named Russia’s best and renowned for its inventive tasting menus and notoriously hard-to-get tables. Of course, most of us stopped going there…