"Anatoly sent me"
Posted on 02/23/2011 9:22:25 AM PST by struwwelpeter
The Federal Parliament has adopted on its first reading a bill that, among other things, recognizes beer as an alcoholic product and introduces a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol the night, according to ITAR-TASS. The bill fixes the notion of beer as an alcoholic beverage produced from malt, hops and yeast, with an ethanol content of at least 0.5 per cent in the finished product. In addition, beverages manufactured on the basis of beer, with ethanol contents of up to seven percent, are also to be classified as alcoholic beverages.
The sales of alcoholic beverages will be banned from 11 pm to 8 am local time, “in order to reduce alcohol consumption and prevent alcoholism” according to the bill. Simultaneously, the draft law gives regions the right to establish additional constraints on the times and places of sale of such products. The sale of alcoholic beverages is to forbidden in market stalls, kiosks, tents, and other places that are “not adapted to the sale of such products.”
The bill also prohibits the retail sale of alcoholic beverages and beers fortified to more than 5 percent in places of mass gatherings as well as locations where there are sources of increased danger, such as bus and train stations and airports.
The project has stricter requirements for retail sales of alcoholic beverages, including low-alcohol. These are prohibited on all public transport, urban and suburban, as well as in areas adjacent to children’s educational and medical organizations, “cultural organizations (except for catering), and sports facilities.” Organizations and individual entrepreneurs who do not have fixed storage and retail space and checkout equipment will be banned for the retail sale of beer and other beverages stronger than 5 percent.
In order to prevent alcohol abuse among young people, the bill proposes mandatory labeling of low-alcohol products with alcohol contents higher than 7 percent, and limit the volume of the consumer packaging. This, according to the developers of the bill, will help reduce the single dose of consumption, and increase the cost per unit of such products, and be an additional constraint for the buyer.
Major changes will occur in the production of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic beverages. Under the draft law, the government will define production capacities of such enterprises, while at the same time it is possible that tax stamps will be more tightly controlled. Last year, the removal of and reuse of excise marks on other products accounted for about 20 billion rubles in lost revenue to the federal budget.
Good luck with all that.
In the northern parts of Russia this will be okay in the summer but the winters are going to be a bear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun
In other news, the sale of antifreeze has skyrocketed...
No vodka sale at night? To Russkies? That will make Wisconsin look like a church choir.
So basically from 10pm to 11pm it would be wise to stay off the roads as the alcoholics will (already tanked) be making their last minute run.
I will claim Russia as my Kingdom! (read my name:))
Summer will be fine at their latitudes, but winter will be VERY rough...
This right here is a major change. Those kiosks sell a lot of booze and they're everywhere. Interesting to see Russia take on the challange of controlling alcoholism. Ukraine, I've read, is also enacting laws to curb drinking. Alcoholism is no joke in these countries. I've seen it first-hand. It's bad and it starts young.
“Ivan is good worker. And why not?... he is well paid.
After work he likes to stop off for a drink. ONE!
Not like Uzbeks who have many drinks and light fires.
(Pan to Uzbeks dressed in furs)
Drink OLD COSMONAUT.”
“When work is done!”
Old Soviet joke back when there was a vodka shortage, and they are in a line to purchase vodka:
One guy says “ I can’t stand these lines anymore-I am going to go kill Gorbachev!”
His friend says - “you can’t do that, he is protected by KGB, at best you will go to Gulag, or you might get shot!”
Nonetheless, his friend leaves. He figures he will never see him again.
About two hours later, his friend comes back to the line- “well, did you kill Gorbachev?” he asks him.
No, his buddy replys - “that line was longer than this one!”
Narrator: If there was someone in your family who was no good...
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: Someone who embarrassed you...
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: Someone who constantly took but never gave...
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: If there was someone like that in your family...
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: You would do something, wouldn’t you? Mother Russia has someone like that in her family.
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: But she can’t do something about it without your help. Experience has taught us not to make martyrs of our enemies, so: Leave them alone.
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Narrator: Don’t give them money or matches.
Chorus: Uzbeks.
Title Card: Mother Russia Cares
Narrator: And don’t encourage them to gamble and drink. Uzbeks. They are the weak link in the great chain of Socialism.
[ In other news, the sale of antifreeze has skyrocketed... ]
In other news, the sale of “antifreeze” has skyrocketed...
Emphasis is everything.
Bootleggers and Speak Easies are gonna love this news.
“I could turn your country into hollandaise sauce if I wanted to Mr. Premier...
..It’s a sauce we put on eggs.”
LOL!!!
In related news, millions of hungover Russians stormed the State Duma building, tearing members limb from limb.
Every Russian worth his salt already knows how to make vodka, beer and wine at home.
What a great tagline!
I think I will post it where my wife can see it :)
"Anatoly sent me"
It just means that, like those of us in states with no package sales on Sunday, the Russkies will just have to plan ahead and buy what they need to hold them over.
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