Scottish & Newcastle launched Foster's Twist, a beer with a hint of citrus that is marketed as a refreshing alternative to other heavier beers and Premium Packaged Spirits such as Smirnoff Ice.

Yakov " Soviet Russia " Smirnoff ( born 24 January 1951 ) is a comedian who emigrated to America from the USSR.

Smirnoff is also a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University where he teaches " The Business of Laughter.

Russian reversal or " In Soviet Russia " is a type of joke originated by Smirnoff, and is an example of antimetabole.

Smirnoff is also a painter and has frequently featured the Statue of Liberty in his art since receiving his U. S. citizenship.

Absolut is the third largest brand of alcoholic spirits in the world after Bacardi and Smirnoff, and is sold in 126 countries.

Depicted here is No. 63 — Smirnoff Twisted V Green Apple.

Most Smirnoff products have an identifying number that is displayed on the label.

This is the classic Smirnoff Red Label vodka flavored with Nordic Berries.

In the United Kingdom and some other markets, it is called Smirnoff Nordic Berries.

The newest addition to the Smirnoff family is the Cocktail Range, which was introduced in 2010.

It is made by the Smirnov Trading House, a company that is part of a joint venture by Russia's Alfa Group and Diageo, the owner of the Smirnoff brand.

He is also a commercial artist, and has been paid to create advertisements for products such as the Xbox and Smirnoff vodkas.

It is led by President Joel Smirnoff.

Baczewski company were labelled with the brand and a small slogan saying that " the only vodka of comparable quality is produced by Pierre Smirnoff of Russia.

This effective tactic was notably used by Heublein, the owner of the Smirnoff brand of vodka ).

The Smirnoff brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov ( 1831 – 1898 ), the son of illiterate Russian peasants.

In March 2006, Diageo North America claimed that Smirnoff vodka was the best-selling distilled spirit brand in the world.

In 1904 the Tsar nationalized the Russian vodka industry and Vladimir Smirnoff was forced to sell his factory and brand.

After many lawsuits, which resulted in Diageo's brand being banned in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Russian brand became a " sister product " of Smirnoff vodka.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-off was a common transliteration of-ov when spelling Russian surnames in foreign languages such as French ( e. g., the Smirnoff brand ).

In Europe and Canada, alcopops tend to be pre-mixed spirits, including vodka ( e. g. Smirnoff Ice ) or rum ( e. g. Bacardi Breezer ).

* In 1934, Rudolph Kunett started the first vodka distillery in the U. S. after purchasing rights to the recipe from the exiled Smirnoff family.

Three friends were in the Chatham bar, one John A. Morgan, known as Jack, president of Cock ' n ' Bull Products and owner of the Hollywood Cock ' n ' Bull Restaurant ; one was John G. Martin, president of G. F. Heublein Brothers Inc. of Hartford, Conn., and the third was Rudolph Kunett, president of the Pierre Smirnoff, Heublein's vodka division.

Smirnoff products include vodka, flavored vodka, and malt beverages.

Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with either lime soda or cola in a 70-cl bottle.

Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with Cola or Tonic Water in a 250ml can.

Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice in a 250-ml can.

Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with ginger beer and lime.

Coffee-flavored Smirnoff vodka, 37. 5 % ABV.

The basic Smirnoff vodka — number 21 — has performed well at spirit ratings competitions.

Pyotr Smirnov founded his vodka distillery in Moscow in the 1860s under the trading name of PA Smirnoff, pioneering charcoal filtration in the 1870s, and becoming the first to utilize newspaper ads along with charitable contributions to the clergy to stifle anti-vodka sermons, capturing two-thirds of the Moscow market by 1886.

Four years later he moved to Lwów ( formerly Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine ) and started to sell the vodka under the contemporary French spelling of the name, " Smirnoff ".

In 1933 Vladimir sold Kunett the right to begin producing Smirnoff vodka in North America.

A bottle of Smirnoff Red Label vodka, No. 21.

They then proceeded to spend their currency on Marlboro cigarettes, Levi jeans and Smirnoff vodka.

The US-made variety of Smirnoff vodka was especially popular.

Seeing the popularity of Smirnoff amongst the Russian troops, Collis set about trying to sell Smirnoff vodka directly into the USSR.

He also has produced: LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Amy Holland ( he sang a duet with her called " I Still Run To You " which was on Amy's second album On Your Every Word ), Trisha Yearwood, Selena, All-4-One, Bette Midler ( and also sang a duet with her, " I Know You by Heart ," on the Beaches film soundtrack ), Brian Setzer, TLC, Brian McKnight, Little Richard, Patti Austin, Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram, The Pointer Sisters, Mavis Staples, Andrae Crouch, David Benoit, Take 6, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Steve Vai, Tevin Campbell, The Jerky Boys, Paul Rodriguez, Yakov Smirnoff, Def Jeff, Amy Grant, Chet Atkins, Olivia Newton-John, DC Talk, recent Academy Award – winner Jennifer Hudson and CeCe Winans.

In 1969, Hemmings produced the Smirnoff World Pro-Am Surfing Championships which became the defacto professional world championships.

" This predated a similar schtick by Yakov Smirnoff.

In the late 1980s, Smirnoff was commissioned by ABC to provide educational bumper segments for Saturday morning cartoons, punctuated with a joke and Smirnoff's signature laugh.

In the 1990s, a morphing-based variation on time-slicing was employed by director Michel Gondry and the visual effects company BUF Compagnie in the music video for The Rolling Stones ' " Like A Rolling Stone ", and in a 1996 Smirnoff commercial the effect was used to depict slow-motion bullets being dodged.

There are two different products by the name of Smirnoff Ice.

* In Soviet Russia a comical antimetabole first used by Yakov Smirnoff

* Dancer Karina Smirnoff explained on an episode of The Biography Channel cable series Celebrity Ghost Stories that she believes she was attacked as a young girl by a friend's Domovoi when she tried to sleep in a room belonging to her friend's missing uncle.

" and many other Russian reversal jokes by Yakov Smirnoff.

The Midnight Rockers teamed up with Curt Hennig to defeat Somer, Rose and Alexis Smirnoff at ” Battle by the Bay ” on June 28, 1986 to prove that they were indeed capable of beating the champions.

For the same reason Andrew and Mat split from the band and were replaced by Oleg Smirnoff at keyboards ( ex Eldritch ) and Matteo Amoroso at drums ( ex Athena ).

The song was also used by Mario Lopez and his partner Karina Smirnoff in Season 3 of Dancing with the Stars.

He also got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and developed his joke writing skills by performing himself at amateur stand-up comedy nights.