{"id":563072,"date":"2026-07-28T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563072"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:27:28","slug":"belarusian-retailers-sold-3-4-billion-rubles-worth-of-alcohol-in-first-half-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-retailers-sold-3-4-billion-rubles-worth-of-alcohol-in-first-half-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Retailers Sold 3.4 Billion Rubles Worth of Alcohol in First Half of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Sales of alcoholic beverages and beer through retail trade organizations totaled 3.4 billion Belarusian rubles in the first half of the year. This category accounted for 6.5% of total retail turnover, according to data published by Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of alcoholic beverages, measured in terms of pure alcohol, increased by 0.3% year-on-year to just under 3.7 million decaliters during the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Sales increased for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vodka, up 1.7% to 4.03 million decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>liqueurs and spirits, up 18.7% to 703,800 decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>cognac, cognac-based beverages, and brandy, up 7.1% to 692,100 decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>sparkling wines, up 1.6% to 1.03 million decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>low-alcohol beverages, up 5.1% to 2.377 million decaliters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sales declined for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grape wines, down 2.8% to 1.59 million decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>fruit wines, down 19.1% to 1.37 million decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>beer, down 1.4% to 18.88 million decaliters;<\/li>\n<li>other alcoholic beverages, down 7.5% to 579,400 decaliters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of alcoholic beverages and beer through retail trade organizations totaled 3.4 billion Belarusian rubles in the first half of the year. This category accounted for 6.5% of total retail turnover, according to data published by Belstat. Sales of alcoholic beverages, measured in terms of pure alcohol, increased by 0.3% year-on-year to just under 3.7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":515325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6867f8f1f21.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Retailers Sold 3.4 Billion Rubles Worth of Alcohol in First Half of the Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}