Wine into water
Pity Georgia. Russia played power politics with the Caucasian republic by banning Georgian wine imports on the grounds that the wine was tainted by pesticides and chemicals. Georgian wine officials sent samples to France and got a clean bill of health.
Then they went for the “big guns“: they tried to recruit J-Lo to sing in the main square of the capital Tbilisi on their Independence Day, May 26. But apparently $500,000 wasn’t enough to entice the pop star to sing the virtues of their wines.
Now Russia has just banned Georgian mineral water, known in Russia as a hangover remedy, on similar health grounds. Are the Georgians going to go for the nuclear option next: recruit Dick Cheney?
May
7
2006
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On May 8th, 2006 at 5:22 am ,Anonymous wrote:
I’m Georgian and I don’t see what’s the problem with this wine thing. If Russians don’t want to drink Georgian wine because of political reasons that’s their buisness and I don’t see the problem here. They once again showed to everyone that the Russia in not civilised country from many standpoints and that’s how they don’t end up in WTO for next few
more years.