Russia is planning to ‘privatize’ the renowned Massandra Winery in occupied Crimea, with the essentially priceless Ukrainian wine cellars and vineyards likely to be sold for a pittance to one of the Russian oligarchs close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Political analyst Yevhenia Horyunova notes that a winery that even the Nazis did not touch and that survived the anti-alcohol measures under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is now to be plundered by the Russian occupiers. Nor is it the first since Russia’s invasion and annexation in 2014.
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Halya Coynash: Russia is plundering Crimean Massandra Winery for oligarchs
his archive picture taken on July 23, 2004 shows workers at a wine cellar in the Massandra winery, not far from Yalta.
