« Moscow Outsourcing Gays to Berlin
Kyiv Might Be Better Option | Main | "Clunkers" Mentality in Putin's Plans »


January 1, 2010
Another Attempt at Temperance in Russia
Bruce Chapman

no-to-drinking-poster.jpg

The alcoholism problem is Russia is really the vodka problem--it's too inexpensive. Accordingly, President Medvedev intends to raise the price up to a minimum of three dollars a bottle, still a very low price by American standards.

Posted by Bruce Chapman on January 1, 2010 10:16 PM |



TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.russiablog.org/scripts/mt/mt-tb.cgi/29281

Leave a comment

 Dotted Divider Line

Russia Blog presents up-to-date news, facts and commentary on the state of events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The blog is managed by Yuri Mamchur, Director of Discovery Institute's Real Russia Project, a member of MBA class 2011 at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, and a composer in his spare time.


 






Send an email to us at:
yuri@discovery.org
charles@discovery.org