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The situation in Ukraine is appalling
and I have sent a message of
support from NZMBC to the
Ukrainian Miniature Bottle Club. By
coincidence I bought a Ukrainian
miniature in February, the Strong
pistol (somehow very appropriate)
shown below. This came from Euro
Liquor, https://www.euroliquor.co.nz
I also bought the Samvel II Sword
from there (100ml but looks larger)
which is an Armenian bottle and
two Belaco CCCP/USSR Russian
vodkas from there and these have
a NZ importer’s label on them. The
web site shows the 0.1 litre bottle
as having a gold cap but the one
with the red cap turned up. Another
variation to get I suppose.

I was on the Euro Liquor site as a
member, Dmitry, asked me if I
could send a number of the 50ml bottles to him if
he ordered them and had them sent to me. I was
happy to help a fellow collector/member but the
day after I sent them Russia invaded Ukraine. He
still has not received them! By coincidence, also
in February, I was contacted by a Swedish
Absolut collector who was put onto me by
member John Thiesen from Denmark. He wanted
some NZ import Absolut minis and some Absolut
cans only sold in Australia and NZ. I again helped

but then discovered that the
Absolut Vodka import label was
different from previous ones. I

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