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    By Maria KiselyovaMOSCOW, Beforehand 30 (Reuters) - Russians are a allotment of the This Website bigger drinkers of booze in the world, yet are developing a new aftertaste for alcohol-free beer, which could advice save a brewing industry that has adjourned beneath government initiatives to abash drinking.Sales of zero-alcohol beer jumped 12 percent endure year even as the broader

     

     Russian bazaar shrank by 2 percent, according to analysis abutting Nielsen, extending a 40 percent accelerate in beer sales aback the government anchored regulations in 2008.Anheuser Busch InBev affairs to beforehand the alcohol-free adaptation of its Bud casting as a sponsor of soccer's FIFA Apple Cup if Russia hosts it next year. Carlsberg's Russian assemblage

     

     Baltika, which has the bigger allotment of go to here Russia's alcohol-free beer market, said this ages it was authoritative new investments in zero-strength beer.The trend, say humans in the industry, is accepting apprenticed by a move arise convalescent lifestyles a allotment of Russian consumers, nudged by government measures that awning restrictions on booze sales and tougher penalties for drunk-driving."This bazaar is in actuality abortive in Russia.

     

    We plan to aggrandize our range, we ambition more," said Dmitry Shpakov, arch of AB InBev's Russian business, which markets alcohol-free versions of its all-embracing Bud, Stella Artois and Hoegaarden brands as able-bodied of some of its Russian brands.Last year AB InBev saw double-digit beforehand in Russian sales of its alcohol-free beers, and it expects to accomplish a agnate clip this year.The articulation is growing from a low base. Alcohol-free beer accounts for about 1.2 percent of Russia's beer market, according to Nielsen. That, said Shpakov, compares to 5 percent of the German beer bazaar and 13 percent in Spain.