1.   And in secular families, one may even be offered a shot of bootleg vodka or a glass of homemade wine.

2.   Across the courtyard, a maze of footpaths tramped through unmown weeds, another family sells bootleg vodka from another clapboard house.

3.   Mrs. Chernyshkova peddles bootleg vodka.

4.   Authorities issue regular warnings about the dangers of bootleg vodka, which results in hundreds, perhaps thousands of deaths each year in Russia.

5.   Bootleg vodka is even cheaper.

6.   Border guards have discovered a plastic pipe running under the border of Estonia and Latvia that they believe was used to smuggle bootleg vodka.

7.   Smuggled alcohol is used to produce bootleg vodka, which is being sold in Lithuanian villages at half the price of state-produced vodka, BNS said.

8.   Sales of bootleg vodka are booming in Saint Petersburg, depriving the authorities of much-needed tax revenue and triggering a sharp increase in cases of alcohol poisoning.