Running a vodka business in Crimea

Mar 17, 2014, 06:41 PM

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"A lot of our staff got drunk last night celebrating" - Neil Smith is founder and owner of the Crimean Vodka Company based in Simferopol. His company normally produces 110 million litres of vodka a year - mainly for the Ukrainian and Russian markets. He tells the BBC's Mark Whittaker on World Business Report what it's like to run a business in Crimea right now with supply chain difficulties and how his trucks are negotiating the Russia / Ukraine borders.