Nearly half of Russia’s working-age men who die are drinking themselves to the grave with almost anything they can get their hands on.
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June 17, 2007
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June 15, 2007Russian production of vodka and liquors in January-February 2007 up 150% from the first two months of 2006, the National Alcohol Association (NAA) said.
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March 19, 2007Norwegian authorities detained the captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a Ukrainian giant An-22 cargo plane on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, the Associated Press reports.
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January 9, 2007A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006A drunken Russian driver put his keys in his mouth to stop a traffic policeman confiscating his car, and then bit the officer when he tried to retrieve them, police said on Tuesday.
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November 28, 2006Two people have died after being poisoned by counterfeit alcohol in the Irkutsk region over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from alcohol poisoning in the area to 60.
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November 10, 2006For the period from January to September 2006 about 17.000 people died from bootleg alcohol poisoning, according to the official statement of State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov.
Alcohol poisoning cases are regularly reported in regions throughout Russia. Bootleg alcohol poisoning claims thousands of lives in Russia every year and the year of 2006 is no exception.
After a number of cases in which vodka bottles contained detergents and other hazardousl chemicals Russia’s consumer rights watchdog launched investigations into cases of mass alcohol poisoning.
Boris Gryzlov spoke for a state monopoly on alcohol sale. “It’s time to raise the issue of a state monopoly on alcohol sales,†he said.
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October 31, 2006Russia’s Health and Social Development Ministry said today that about 40,000 people die annually from alcohol poisoning in the country, Radio Free Europe reports.
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October 27, 2006A winged cat has been killed by villagers near the Central Russian city of Kursk. The locals drowned the deformed puss after believing it was a messenger of Satan, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.
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July 29, 2004
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