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"The law brings some order into the sale of beer," Vadim Drobiz, director of the Centre for Federal and Regional Alcohol Market Studies, told US broadcaster Bloomberg.Last year the Russian beer industry was hit by a 200% tax hike on its products as ministers sought to bring consumption under control.The new measures - which come into effect in 2013 - will stop alcohol being sold in unlicensed kiosks, ban its sale from stores between certain hours and restrict its advertising.In 2009 President Medvedev ordered the government to prepare draft laws on a package of measures to counter growing alcohol abuse.
In America, you abuse alcohol.In Soviet Russia, alcohol abuse you!