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Friday, January 21, 2011
RUSSIA: Call that a drink? Uproar over alcohol label for beer
Creating gold requires only the magic of alchemy but the fate of a proposal to legally define beer as an alcoholic drink will depend on the more challenging art of politics.
Russian law treats beer as a food and anyone who makes and sells it only has to prove that conditions are sanitary.
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This lack of regulation and attendant attitude, critics say, has contributed to people as young as 13 drinking, paving the way to the nation's unbridled alcoholism...
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When you combine this with the fact that vodka costs the same as soft drinks (and until very recently it was cheaper), there is no wonder that alcoholism is a major problem in Russia.
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