Vodka lemon

Vodka Lemon is a simple story about simple people. An ex-soldier widower from Armenia tries to make ends meet with the 7 Dollars a month he receives as a pension. He lives with one of his three sons and his granddaughter. Every day he takes the bus to visit his wife's grave. One of the other passengers on the bus is a widow, also going to the cemetary, who works at the Vodka Lemon shop.


On the subject of Vodka, here is a short translation of a story one can read on www.ogoniol.com:

Just to clarify: I do not understand Russian, I found a French translation of the Russian article on Courrier International. Click here for the whole article in French.

"The (Russian) Authorities have just launched a low cost Vodka brand in order to fight 'impure/denatured' alcohol. This is the first measure of the government fight against alcoholism."
I know that a lot of Russians have recently become ill or even died from denatured Vodka. (This is why the government is trying to nationalise alcohol production/retail) However lowering the price of alcohol does not seem to me to be the best solution to reduce alcoholism.

The article goes on. A few entrepreneurs have had the brilliant idea of selling distilling machines for home use, so that people can make their own Vodka and don't get poisoned. I'm not sure it's the way forward to suppress denatured Vodka. If everybody makes their own, and potentially sell their home-made stuff, how can you tell what's in it??? In any case, distilling machines are selling like hot cakes. Some (richer) people have even had their distilling machine tailor-made, with pipes AND TAPS straight into their living room. I am sure that even Vodka Bar down town does not have that.