Posted on 08/18/2010 11:31:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Russia is to ban the sale of vodka in Moscow’s shops after 10 at night as part of the toughest anti-alcohol campaign since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
From the beginning of September, it will be illegal for the Russian capital’s supermarkets, shops and kiosks to sell vodka from 10pm to 10am.
The move will replace lax rules that theoretically forbid Moscow’s shops from selling the grain-based spirit from eleven at night to eight in the morning but which in practice allow them to sell vodka around the clock if they get a permit.
It comes as the Kremlin pushes ahead with the harshest anti-alcohol campaign since former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s draconian ban on vodka sales in 1985. Mr Gorbachev, who became a hate figure for many ordinary Russians as a result of the ban, decreed that vodka could only be sold from two in the afternoon to seven at night. His campaign prompted desperate drunks to rush to get their fix by imbibing perfume and other hazardous intoxicants instead. Many of them died as a result.
However, Yevgeny Brun, Russia’s top government expert in drug and alcohol abuse, welcomed the new restrictions.
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Yeah, right.
Ha! Good luck with that one, comrades.
Vodka is how the Russkies stay warm in the winters. Going to be an extra bitter winter if this law is enforced (and I suspect it won’t be enforced too well).
That is soooo un-Russian!
Putin is not a drinker.
Which makes him even more dangerous.
What about beer? Afterall, Russia is the number one consumer of beer in the world.
Russians who get up in the morning hung over and can’t buy vodka until after 10 AM. Nothing good can come from that.
Are they even sober enough to buy vodka after 10?
Government experts usually do welcome new government restrictions.
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