The experiment with distance selling wine in Russia was expanded to three more regions 
March next year, can be extended to three more regions in addition to Moscow and the region, writes Izvestia. A newspaper source in the Cabinet of Ministers said that at the end of September, Presidential Aide Maxim Oreshkin held a meeting on the experiment, where a decision was made. will present them online on a specialized website of the Russian Post, after which the company will deliver the goods to the buyer. The pilot project should be launched in Moscow, Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Nizhny Novgorod regions, specified in the “Post of Russia”. The coverage of the regions was expanded at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Ministry of Finance clarified that the bill is aimed at supporting Russian winemaking. Buyers are planning to check documents to control their age. The ministry proposes to use the Unified System of Identification and Authentication (ESIA) for this, the check will take place upon receipt of the goods.
The fact that the bill is aimed at interagency coordination was reported in early October. The timing of the pilot project is from March 31, 2022 to December 31, 2024. Then the participation of two regions – Moscow and the region was supposed. The first version of the bill, published in August 2021, said that the experiment would also involve Mordovia.