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The Daily Telegraph reports that beer is going "...to be legally classified as an alcoholic drink in Russia for the first time as the Kremlin forges ahead with the toughest anti-alcohol measures since the fall of the Soviet Union."
Russians drink 32 pints of pure alcohol a year, that is double what the World Health Organization recommends and has made alcoholism, to quote President Dmitry Medvedev, "a national disaster."
The bill will ban the sale of beer in schools. Schools. Apparently Russians, who favour hard liqour, think of beer as a soft drink. According the the story I am sourcing "It is not uncommon to see men drinking a can on the way to work or teenagers drinking beer at lunchtime..."
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