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Why gay activists shouldn’t be boycotting Stolichnaya Russian vodka

Latvians are saying not to boycott Stolichnaya Vodka over Russian gay rights abuses…because Stolichnaya is actually made in their country.

This final note today, a bit of an Eastern European geography lesson. Gay bars in the U.S. and Europe have ditched ‘Russian vodka’ in the last week to protest anti-LGBT laws in that country, and the threat to arrest gay athletes and supporters at the Sochi Winter Olympics next year.

But gay campaigners in Latvia say: hold up. Don’t boycott Stolichnaya Vodka over Russian gay rights abuses, because it is made in their country — Latvia, not Russia.

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