without state support, projects of such import substitution may turn out to be too fabulous sergey ansygin maxim mintsevtelevision company russians have changed the strategy of forming their food stocks analysts say that buying buckwheat sugar, pasta has become noticeably smaller further business news. marina pimenova marina what are the russians buying now that they have eaten, now they can drink it. uh-huh by the beginning of april, the russians cooled off to rush purchases, sugar and buckwheat and switched to intoxicants in retail chains, the demand for vodka gin and beer sharply increased, as nielsen iq read the figures, citing rbc in the week from march 28 to april 3, sugar sales in stores decreased by 12% compared to a year ago canned butter by 9%, pasta by 4%. and even buckwheat showed a drop let it be 1/10%, but the russians bought beer by 8% more than vodka by 9% gin's popularity soared by 52%. experts interviewed by rbc suggest that russians began to buy imported alcohol, suspecting that it could rise in price or even disappear from sale, because many companies began to talk about leaving russ