Amendments will come into force on July 1, 2018, the newspaper Izvestia writes about this.

This will remove the contradiction between the law and GOST, according to the authors of the initiative - members of the Federation Council. According to the law "On state regulation of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol," vodka is a drink that is produced on the basis of ethyl alcohol with a strength of 38-56 percent.

"In describing the special properties of the product with the name of the place of origin," Russkaya Vodka "said that its lower fortress is 37.5 percent," said Senator Sergei Ryabukhin and stressed that the legal conflict must be resolved taking this fact into account.

Reducing the fortress at the legislative level can lead to changes in the assortment of the drink. So, a few years ago, illegal producers used to make vodka a strength of 37.5 degrees to save alcohol, recalled the head of the Center for Federal and Regional Market Studies Vadim Drobiz.

"At the same time, the demand for it was colossal due to unusual taste. The drink was softer. Producers claimed that intoxication from alcohol was more long-lasting than the classical version of vodka, "he said..