Perfume purged because people get stinking drunk

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А ктото говорил что не пьют

 RUSSIAN women are facing a bleak winter without perfume because of a government crackdown on bootleg alcohol.

The beauty business has been thrown into turmoil by the introduction of a licensing regime for goods containing more than 1.5pc alcohol.

The rule was intended to regulate the drinks industry as part of efforts to curb alcohol abuse. However, it has also left cosmetics companies unable to produce, import or distribute perfume and other products containing alcohol.

Russia's women must now endure the sobering prospect of empty shelves and soaring prices as supplies of scent, hair spray and deodorant dry up.

German Gref, the Economic Development Minister, who was described by one Russian paper as the Government's chief "Mod" because of his penchant for sharp suits, promised to amend the law to exempt cosmetics.

However, industry representatives say that Russia's Parliament, the Duma, was unlikely to make the reform in time to prevent Christmas and New Year shortages. They fear that criminal gangs will cash in by flooding the market with fake goods. Just 187 of Russia's 3,500 legal distributors have obtained a 230,000 Rouble (?7,000) licence since the regulation was introduced in July. Tatiana Puchkova, chairman of the Perfumery and Cosmetics Association of Russia, said that supplies fell by 75pc in August and had recovered little since then. "If nothing changes before January then the situation will be terrible."

The licensing system, which is supervised by the Federal Security Service, the KGB's successor, was intended to halt a trade in cheap perfume containing bootleg alcohol that alcoholics were buying to drink.

Sergei Bolshakov, managing director of the Association of Perfumery, Cosmetics and Household Chemicals Manufacturers, said: "People are not buying expensive perfumes so that they can drink them. We are happy that the Government has recognised the crisis that it created,"Russia's cosmetics market is worth ?4bn a year and almost half of products exceed the threshold for the Government's alcohol-monitoring regime. (© The Times, London)

src: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independe...issue_id=14776

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