MOSCOW, July 18 The European Union is increasing beer exports to Russia for the fourth month in a row — in May it reached 24 million euros, according to an analysis of Eurostat data.
Thus, at the end of spring, Russia increased purchases of this alcohol from the EU by 4% — up to 24 million euros. Exports have been growing since January of this year, when they amounted to only 14.9 million euros, and already in May, for the second month in a row, they remained at the maximum since August last year. 
Latvia increased its supplies the most in May — by 1.8 times compared to April, to 1.9 million euros. The Netherlands increased exports by a quarter to 1.2 million euros, and the Czech Republic by 16% to 3.4 million euros. Russian purchases from Lithuania (+7%, 4.3 million euros) and Poland (+5%, 2.2 million) also increased.
Germany remains the largest exporter of beer to Russia, while in May supplies from there decreased by 4% — to 8.1 million euros. Belgian beer exports also decreased by a quarter, to 2.5 million euros.
It is interesting that in May, for the first time since the fall of 2022, Hungary resumed beer supplies to Russia, but they were small — only 103 thousand euros.