Russia, Armenia To Pool Efforts To Stop Brandy Fakes

RUSSIA, ARMENIA TO POOL EFFORTS TO STOP BRANDY FAKES

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
June 28, 2006 Wednesday

Russian Interior Ministry and Armenian police will boost cooperation
to stop the export of Armenia’s forged brandies to Russia, Interior
Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told a news conference on Wednesday.

Russian and Armenian law enforcers took more active steps of late
to eliminate forgery of consumer goods, mainly Armenia’s brandies,
he said.

The two countries have created a bank of brandies’ samples produced
in Armenia.

"At present, experts are capable of identifying brandies’ authenticity
with 100-percent certainty," Nurgaliyev said.

"Unfortunately, there are still too many forgeries," he said.