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Many of Russia’s smallest and most innovative winemakers, with the informal approval of local officials, long operated without licenses, considering them prohibitively cumbersome and expensive. Then, about two years ago, federal authorities started cracking down, bringing the easy boom years of the country’s upstart vintners to an end. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/world/europe/russia-wine-black-sea.html