A top Russian alcohol market official says half of all wine and 70 percent of the cognac on that country’s store shelves is counterfeit.Vladislav Spirin, a policy official at Reh Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation, says the fake wine and cognac is made out of “concentrates, aromatisers, and alcohol”.It is said that alcohol abuse kills around 500,000 Russians annually and greatly impacts male life expectancy, which is lower than in such developing countries as Bangladesh and Honduras, according to official figures.