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Kazakh ban on Russian alcohol sales: Just days after Kazakhstan slapped a ban on the sale of a range of Russian beer and alcohol products, it looks likely that many of the prohibited brands will soon reappear in Kazakh shops. The brands – which included Talco, Empire, Wild Goose, Green Mark and Rye vodkas, and Brahma, Bud and Zhigulevskoye beers – were said to contravene Kazakhstan’s food safety regulations. KP.ru