A man takes a Baltika beer can in a shop in Moscow on December 3, 2024. Danish brewer Carlsberg announced on December 3, 2024 an agreement to sell its shares in its Russian unit - Baltika Breweries, a day after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ending state control of the business. Carlsberg, like many other Western firms, had announced in March 2022 that it would leave Russia, where it employed 8,400 people, following Moscow's offensive in Ukraine. But a year later, Putin placed Carlsberg's local unit, Baltika Breweries, under state management and the Danish firm's chief executive, Jacob Aarup-Andersen, declared that its Russian business had been "stolen". (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)