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The mystery of Moscow’s empty supermarket shelves

Owen Matthews offers a parable of consumer attitudes in the new Russia and explains why it’s almost impossible to buy a bottle of wine there these days

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Owen Matthews writes about Russia for The Spectator and is the author of Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine.

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