The Ministry of Health announced a decrease in alcohol consumption in Russia

The Russian Ministry of Health announced a significant reduction in the level of alcohol consumption in our country.

According to Oleg Salagai, deputy head of the Ministry of Health, the level of alcohol consumption per capita in the 2018 year fell to 9,7 liters per year. We are talking about the so-called "absolute alcohol."

Recall that when calculating the volume of alcohol consumption, absolutely all citizens of the country are taken into account.

Oleg Salagai noted that 9,7 l is still a lot, but still it is significantly less than 18 l, which were recorded several years ago.

At the same time, experts are rather skeptical about the assessment of the Ministry of Health, as the usual method of alcohol consumption is evaluated primarily on official sales. This technique may not take into account “own production”.

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to people who have not reached the 21 of the year. It is planned that such a law in our country can come into force in the 2020 year.

For reference: today the most "drinking" countries of the world are Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine. According to the results of the 2017 year, Russia was in the 8 place of the unofficial “rating” with an indicator of about 10 l of “absolute alcohol” per year per capita.

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[yang174]

Kazakh woman? stopped flowing across the border?

[Svarog]

Quote: yang174

Kazakh woman? stopped flowing across the border?

Kazakh alcohol, plus home-made moonshines, plus night sales are not controlled .. Here with these data the statistics would be more correct. But who needs it ... now the main thing is to draw fabulous beautiful numbers ..

[ltc35]

So many breweries have opened that soon there will be several pieces in each apartment building!

[The black]

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai, the level of alcohol consumption per capita in 2018 fell to 9,7 liters per year

I wonder where did the MINZDRAV get such figures ?, if another agency reports 4,9% sales growth .... and this is just an excise tax ..... for example, with us a bottle of vodka costs 70-100 rubles (normal factory vodka, only without excise tax), practically no one buys an excise tax

[Siberian 66]

They forgot to call in Siberia ..

[Shurik70]

discusses the idea of ​​banning the sale of alcohol in Russia to persons under the age of 21

And the ban to engage in administrative and political activities after reaching retirement age is weak to introduce? Although, if introduced, the pension will be postponed until 120 years. And the Ministry of Health will officially say that our average life expectancy is 154 years.

[Shraik]

Quote: Black

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai, the level of alcohol consumption per capita in 2018 fell to 9,7 liters per year

I wonder where did the MINZDRAV get such figures ?, if another agency reports 4,9% sales growth .... and this is just an excise tax ..... for example, with us a bottle of vodka costs 70-100 rubles (normal factory vodka, only without excise tax), practically no one buys an excise tax

Not 4.9%, but 4.6% But this is not the main thing. And the fact that this growth is in MONETARY terms. Inflation, prices are rising, and sales have increased.

[AU Ivanov.]

If a good craft beer without strong drinks, then why not.

[Geo]

Puzo is growing

[AU Ivanov.]

It's all about doses. From pies, the belly will grow faster.

[xax]

At the interview:
- How much will you drink vodka per day if you have a salary of 50 rubles?
- 0,5.
- And if 100 rubles?
- Liter.
Following.
- How much will you drink vodka per day if you have a salary of 50 rubles?
- 0,25.
- And if 100 rubles?
- 0,5.
Next
- How much will you drink vodka per day if you have a salary of 50 rubles?
- A bucket!
- And if 100 rubles?
- A bucket!
- And if 1000 rubles ?!
- A bucket.

They took the latter, as he knows the norm.

[machinistvl]

Where do they get such data? Either life expectancy increased, or alcohol consumption decreased, where did you see it, did you consider it? Do not brainwash people with information that the government wants to hear, show real data.

[Alf]

Quote: machinistvl

show real data.

Yeah, the former head of Rosstat somehow leaked real data to the media, so soon he changed his job.

[Geo]

Do you want a true Ministry of Health, which does not cripple the results, but treats people? Create your own Ministry of Health, appoint leaders there and demand what you want from them. And this Ministry of Health is who the Ministry of Health needs.

[machinistvl]

The Ministry of Health has some corruption. Look at what they are doing, reforms, planning, lean manufacturing, anything but improving the quality of service, millions are allocated for these marrasmatic reforms, most of which are deposited in the pockets of chief medical officers and other officials of a higher rank, up to the Ministry of Health.

[4ekist]

We don't have normal breweries. They badyazhat different heaps and sell them under the guise of elite beer, just fill your pockets as quickly as possible. I support and approve of stopping the sale of alcohol under the age of 21. Recently, in line at the checkout, a young man tried to pay for a bottle of whiskey, a pack of cigarettes and a pack of contraceptives (in short, condoms). This is how our youth "rests".
The cashier asked for a passport, he showed a driver's license. This is also a potential criminal.

[Igor V]

Quote: 4ekist

We do not have normal breweries.

You have it, but we have it!

[nikon7717]

Stop by in Kaliningrad. Try a good local beer.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Svarog

Quote: yang174

Kazakh woman? stopped flowing across the border?

Kazakh alcohol, plus home-made moonshines, plus night sales are not controlled .. Here with these data the statistics would be more correct. But who needs it ... now the main thing is to draw fabulous beautiful numbers ..

That's right, so that is 21 years old or 31 ... Whoever needs it will always buy in the next night stall, the owner of which is almost always a mountain child

[nikon7717]

It is not necessary to limit age, but to give a culture of drinking to young people. Well they how to use and that do not know. They don’t understand measures how to get a good pleasure from a glass of wine. How to have a bite. Many commentators on children taught this, or did they themselves receive such lessons?

[Kosta153]

Have you forgotten about the furiks? A neighbor left a garbage bag in the entrance and forgotten. There are 50 furiks there. A master at UMPO.

[U-58]

Not furiks, but funfuriki))))

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Svarog

Quote: yang174

Kazakh woman? stopped flowing across the border?

Kazakh alcohol, plus home-made moonshines, plus night sales are not controlled .. Here with these data the statistics would be more correct. But who needs it ... now the main thing is to draw fabulous beautiful numbers ..

And before all this + 18 liters.

[zloybond]

Homebrewing is nothing compared to shady factory production. The left mini-factories of plants in the south and across the Caucasus in each locality are like mushrooms.

[Sarmat Sanych]

No, well, they actually began to drink at times less than 15 years ago, as I recall that time - there were an order of magnitude more drunk on the streets. Young people now have completely different interests, and rightly so.

[Zhan]

Quote: Sarmat Sanych

No, well, they actually began to drink at times less than 15 years ago, as I recall that time - there were an order of magnitude more drunk on the streets. Young people now have completely different interests, and rightly so.

Yes, I agree with you with ease. I perfectly remember the 90s and the beginning of the XNUMXs, in our towns and villages we take so many alcoholics to the graveyard, Mama Don't Cry. Now the situation has changed dramatically. If this mass of sober and normal population were provided with jobs, it would have been great.

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Sarmat Sanych

No, well, they actually began to drink at times less than 15 years ago, as I recall that time - there were an order of magnitude more drunk on the streets. Young people now have completely different interests, and rightly so.

Right Changes over 15 years: no telly, comp - 10 hours, pension.

[tap]

10 liters of absolute alcohol is only 200 bottles of 0,5 beer per year. I do not believe.

[Honest Citizen]

Oleg Salagai noted that 9,7 l is still a lot, but still it is significantly less than 18 l, which were recorded several years ago.

No, but what? the population is dying, some still do not drink according to their age, someone no longer drinks because of their health ...
Again, with whom are they comparing?
And honestly - create better jobs, open production, there will be more sense

[ltc35]

With normal work, there is simply no time to drink. Yes and no reason. And in the evening I don’t want to.

[Bacha]

That's because of these, we are only in 8th place!)))

[BARKAS]

In addition, we have transplanted all major dealers, someone really smokes the rest under investigation.

[The black]

Quote: Honest Citizen

And honestly - create better jobs, open production, there will be more sense

I absolutely agree ..... I would add more - open sports grounds, skating rinks, make sports available!

[Maalkavianin]

Sport is already available - only no one wants to go on bars and treadmills. Here are sections of martial arts free - no. And to keep the body in good shape is enough of what is on the street.

[fraders]

maybe it depends on the region, but we have a sports ground in every yard, not counting school ones. But they really began to drink less, there aren’t as many drunk as before, + if a public event is undergoing alcohol sales in the nearest shops

[Sarmat Sanych]

Our population is only increasing, now 146,8 million people. At the same time, the internal and external conditions are the same then and now, so the fact remains (and this is evident from the current scanty number of drunks) - they began to drink much less thanks to effective state measures to reduce alcohol abuse of the population. As I recall the 90s and early 2000s, there are stalls at every step, round-the-clock sale of vodka, minimum age restrictions, TV ads, radio, drunken people lying around each house, regular fights at night-lights, etc. We don’t even notice what we got rid of and how much calmer it became.

[Moore]

The Ministry of Health has recently been annealing no worse than Rogozin with his lunar-Martian tales. It was recently stated that the life expectancy of men in Russia in 2017 increased by a year - this is against the background of the fact that Golikova talks about an increase in mortality. Well, or childhood going to 30 years is going to extend ...

[ltc35]

How to extend it? Under 18 to drive to kindergarten?

[Moore]

Quote: ltc35

How to extend it? Under 18 to drive to kindergarten?

They have there something like an indicator of this. Now it is 21 years old. https://realnoevremya.ru/news/99730-glava-minzdarava-rf-sprognozirovala-prodlenie-perioda-detstva-do-30-let
The saying "They will recruit children into the army ..." began to play with new meanings.

[Nycomed]

According to the latest data, which are again voiced by the Ministry of Health, Russia now has a record number of people who have crossed the 100-year-old threshold.

[Sarmat Sanych]

Read my answer above and you will understand everything. And the Ministry of Health does not "anneal" anything, these data are confirmed by the World Health Organization. The number of drunks on the streets has decreased significantly. By the way, in Russia now the lowest infant mortality rate in the entire history, 4,7 per 1000 births, is actually 2 times lower than the best Soviet period and even significantly lower than the current level in the United States (6,5 deaths per 1000 births).

[DEDPIHTO]

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to people who have not reached the 21 of the year. It is planned that such a law in our country can come into force in the 2020 year.

Yes, everything is as usual-prohibit and do not let go. Instead of fighting with real poison, a golem of a smelly sivuha under the label ,, vodka ,,, which is delivered very legally to the shelves ... well, vodka kings will have to punish their friends and this is fraught ...
ps his moonshine is that tear, even beneficial.

[samarin1969]

Quote: DEPHIHTO

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to people who have not reached the 21 of the year. It is planned that such a law in our country can come into force in the 2020 year.

Yes, everything is as usual-prohibit and do not let go. Instead of fighting with real poison, a golem of a smelly sivuha under the label ,, vodka ,,, which is delivered very legally to the shelves ... well, vodka kings will have to punish their friends and this is fraught ...
ps his moonshine is that tear, even beneficial.

It's strange. The best comment, "in the top ten". Why minus ?!

[Avior]

The people are probably outraged that he drinks moonshine in its pure form, and does not pre-insist on annealed oak, as expected

[DEDPIHTO]

Quote: Avior

The people are probably outraged that he drinks moonshine in its pure form, and does not pre-insist on annealed oak, as expected

On the oak ..: the taste and color of all the markers are different. I like pure alcohol, only now it’s nowhere to get it, darling wheat. Last time in St. Petersburg such a beer, already in 1999 and a mustache

[fraders]

because everyone

[Destiny]

This technique may not take into account “own production”.
Yes, we don’t buy anything in stores from the end of the eighties. We don’t do anything. You won’t get poisoned and you won’t be sick in the morning.

[Honest Citizen]

Yes, we don’t buy anything in stores from the end of the eighties. We don’t do anything. You won’t get poisoned and you won’t be sick in the morning.

You shouldn't have said that. SchA from the tax and other "side" ministries will run ... like "not in the budget" ...

[igorbrsv]

Your truth. A lot of people are already switching to their own product. And he really is better. But I'm not in a hurry yet. I will drink it at the stage of fermentation. And it's time for me to tie up. By the way, the reason for my drinking (one of them). Ulyanovsk, the claim of the Ministry of Defense against the SNT "Dubrava". If there are those who are not indifferent, hint the article. I will provide information.
Cadastral numbers: 73: 24: 000000: 539 and 73: 24: 020611 :( any pair of numbers)

[Nycomed]

Did the Ministry of Health also count the "funfiriki" and the moonshine?

[novel66]

he didn’t count nichrome !! one and a half alcohol, i.e. 3 liters of vodka per month ??? just??

[Dym71]

Quote: novel xnumx

3 liters of vodka per month ??? just??

[novel66]

in-in !! right classic !!

[AU Ivanov.]

Young people began to consume much less. For them it became a bad manners - to plump. Bukha means bydlo. The trend is positive.

[akunin]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

In them it became a bad manners - to plump

but "sniffing", "smoking" and "shirevo" + who is richer - "marafet", who is poorer - preparations of lysergic acid.

The trend is positive.

[AU Ivanov.]

I haven’t seen it for a long time either. Of all the substances, the maximum is weed. In the 90s, syringes in front piles lay. At least some benefit from computer toys and social networks - they distracted the kids from vodka with drugs.

[Igoresha]

grass is safer than vodka, people laugh from it and muzzles do not beat each other

[akunin]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

In the 90s, syringes in front piles lay.

I have .y holes in the pits with blood constantly (maybe meth or pervitin?), and drug addicts on the hacienda are constantly popping up (you, in St. Petersburg, have a cultural capital, and we have cold and damp )

[solzh]

The Russian Ministry of Health announced a significant reduction in the level of alcohol consumption in our country.

On the one hand, people stop drinking alcohol. For example, my neighbor has not consumed for a year. And before that, everyone drank! day and mostly fanfare. We thought he would die, but the man pulled himself together and threw it. Now he has become a normal person.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health does not take into account the "left" alcohol. If we take it into account, then I think the statistics will be completely different.

[igorbrsv]

. According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai, the level of alcohol consumption per capita in 2018 fell to 9,7 liters per year. We are talking about the so-called "absolute alcohol."

I missed something. While two weeks in a binge was
There are some changes on the site. I can not rate comments that are more than ten days old. Lord. I think I invented a time machine

[DEDPIHTO]

VO alkozamok set ... After a sober week, try to give grades.

[igorbrsv]

And if after a week it doesn’t help, didn’t it go?
Try it yourself. Although correct on the one hand. Tokma I was gone for two weeks

[Million]

Vodka has become very poor quality. I bought it differently in chain stores. Vodka is diluted with alcohol to taste.

[DEDPIHTO]

This smelly alcohol is diluted to the degree of vodka. Nobody is preparing vodka specially, unless it can be super expensive for the elite.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Million

To the taste vodka diluted with alcohol.

In Mongolia, all the local vodka (Archi) produced is such, only alcohol of different quality.
In large Siberian cities, "fired" vodka or alcohol is sold only on the outskirts for a special contingent. A working person will not drink it - in a store it costs 0,25 from 100 rubles.
There are fewer drunks on the streets in my city (during the day). Young people with an optimistic frenzy are bending iron and grinding "slides". A lot of girls - it pleases. However, beer consumption is high.
As for the data of the Ministry of Health, between food and drink, many began to choose food.

[igorbrsv]

. As for the data of the Ministry of Health, between food and drink, many began to choose food.

As i understand them
Eating hunting fear is simple

[Million]

yes, young people now drink beer

[Whowhy]

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to people who have not reached the 21 of the year. It is planned that such a law in our country can come into force in the 2020 year.

There will be an ambush if they also introduce a 4-day period. You would think that everyone would immediately rush into self-education ....

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: whowhy

There will be an ambush, if they also introduce 4's day

Dimon signed an order to abolish a number of laws from 2020 adopted in the RSFSR and the USSR.

According to the prime minister, in Russia it is necessary to cancel the actions of those acts that impede the development of the economy. Among the documents that have expired are the decree of the 1917 of the year on an eight-hour working day, as well as the decree on the approval of the republican technical conditions “Cooked sausages, poultry and rabbit meat”, dated 1961 year.

https://lenta.ru/news/2019/09/11/documents/

[Alf]

Quote: whowhy

all at once rush to engage in self-education ....

On a scientific basis, they will find out and debate which grade of vodka is higher in quality.

[Dym71]

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai, the level of alcohol consumption per capita in 2018 fell to 9,7 liters per year. We are talking about the so-called "absolute alcohol."

"The citizens of Russia in 2018 consumed sugar twice as much as the norms established by the Ministry of Health. These data are given by the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture. In general, the consumption of the main types of products in Russia exceeded the norms set by the doctors. Each Russian had 39,4 kg of sugar at the norm kg. "
To this would add the dynamics of consumption of starchy raw materials and fruits and berries.

[Undecim]

Somehow officials sing inconsistently.

"Moscow, September 5 - AiF-Moscow.
The share of the shadow alcohol market in the Russian Federation accounts for 30-40%, mostly strong alcoholic beverages are sold by illegal means, Interfax reports, citing Elena Cho, head of the Skolkovo Consumer Market Development Center. "
"Rosstat previously reported that the number of fatal alcohol poisoning due to excess consumption in the first half of 2019 increased by 21,1% compared to the same period last year." (ibid.)
If you add the Ministry of Health 9.7 liters with Skolkovo 40%, then it will be 13.6 liters.
But somehow it doesn’t fit together - they began to drink less, and more because of excess consumption.

[sergo1914]

I suddenly remembered ...
"The more a member of the Komsomol drinks, the less the bully will drink."

[panov_panov]

As a doctor, I can note that alcohol consumption in our country has decreased, the number of people entering hospitals due to alcohol abuse has decreased significantly. I think that prohibitive and educational measures and an increase in the number of cars per capita, a fashion for a healthy lifestyle, and an increase in the price of alcoholic beverages played a role. Such statistics are welcome!

[Lord of the Sith]

Today is just a day of sobriety and a faceted glass day.

Well, for the holidays

[Sniper]

in one ministry they report an increase in sales .. and in another about a decrease in alcohol consumption .. admit who secretly and illegally applies to the green snake)

[Kontrik]

We drank and will drink, or are we not Russians? ! The teetotaler is always suspicious, either sick or .....
People’s Commissar 100 grams saved the country from the Nazis ..

on the ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to persons under the age of 21

What does it mean to kill means you can, but you can’t drink? Then raise the draft age ...
Well, everyone can kick .. I said everything!

[DEDPIHTO]

Meehan, why kick you for an adequate comment? A PLUS!

[Kontrik]

Quote: DEPHIHTO

Meehan, why kick you for an adequate comment? A PLUS!

Well, you can kick once, so that the topic would not develop further, as they say in the wrong steppe .. I can Alex!

All serious decisions were made that way in Russia! From the top to the bottom .. And then the work began sober and intense ..
Well, I suffered shorter .. I’m silent. Many here will not understand now ..

[Antares]

Quote: Kontrik

We drank and will drink, or are we not Russians?

my wife and I do not drink at all.
Well, I understand, "non-Russian!" but my wife ...
non-drinkers are found and not sick at all. They just don’t drink in principle.

Quote: Kontrik

People’s Commissar 100 grams saved the country from the Nazis.

hardly.
Alcohol never contributed to victory before battles. If true cases in cases of victory, then it was achieved by an additional incentive.
By the way, Stepanov has one point. wine allowance received money. And their gift servings were given to drinkers.
And in Russian literature, he noticed a trend, the closer to modernity the less Russians drink.

[Zeev Zeev]

I don’t know how in Lithuania, Ukraine or Hungary, but in the Czech Republic the statistics are lying. The Czechs themselves drink sparingly, but tourists just whip beer for a damn how. They then spoil the statistics.

[Igor V]

When the Poles canceled local cross-border movement (WFP) with Russia, in the Kaliningrad region, per capita alcohol consumption decreased by 2 (two !!) times, according to official statistics.

[Zeev Zeev]

Of course. Your booze is cheaper.

[Antares]

Quote: Zeev Zeev

I don’t know how in Lithuania, Ukraine or Hungary,

by beer rating 2018 we are higher than the Czech Republic!
True, this rating is only with reference to WHO. But on alcohol we are at 61 (2018).
obviously we consume a lot of beer all the same. But the rest of the alcohol is not enough.
Most non-drinking Muslim countries with a strict ban on the Koran
they only drink abroad or at night abroad (they don’t see )

[Fitter65]

The Russian Ministry of Health announced a significant reduction in the level of alcohol consumption in our country.

Of course, less, now we sell beer in bottles not by 1,5 liters, but in 1,35 liters, though at a price of 2 liters. Aluminum cans are also 0,5 or 0.43 instead of 0,45 liters, but the price is the same as for 0,5 liters. True, so far everything is in the glass as it was. 0,5l but more expensive than in cans and plastic, though Chinese in 0.66l., Although expensive, but "BITTING"

[Rust]

Quote: yang174

Kazakh woman? stopped flowing across the border?

And Ossetian too.

[Alf]

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to people who have not reached the 21 of the year. It is planned that such a law in our country can come into force in the 2020 year.

Discuss and plan. Until you get bored. The Ministry of Finance has already spoken out against this idea, as lower income. And all previous experience shows that the Ministry of Finance is the most important in Russia, and no one can call the Ministry of Health.

[Kontrik]

Quote: Alf

Discuss and plan. Until you get bored. The Ministry of Finance has already spoken out against this idea, as lower income. And all previous experience shows that the Ministry of Finance is the most important in Russia, and no one can call the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health does not yet understand the whole situation .. Russia is sober and will be treated and demanding .. The Ministry of Finance is tormented by unfastening money in social services .. etc ... In the interest and the media, the whining of sober residents will begin, mass divorces will begin and everyone will want in the Canaries relax
The result of the turmoil in Russia and the terrible blood will pour .. Then the main teetotalers, scatter across the United States, Israel, Canada, etc. taking with you a couple of USSR budgets (remember the hunchback !!!!!!!!!)
They want to repeat again?

[Puzoter]

What is in vain stoned.

[Moskovit]

In the courtyard, a store sells alcohol at night. And they wrote and called. And to the police, and surveillance, and to the hotline, where they are busy, they do not pick up tubes. The owner is, as usual, a CSTO ally by nationality. Maybe that's why they do not touch)).
But drink, visually, have become less.

[Rwmos]

Brother, let’s bite me abruptly, huh? Let's just say - I’m not close with drugs, or rather, I’m very bad for drug addicts, for example ... And now I know where to buy coke or gerych in the region, the question is about backfill - and the cops don’t know that? Maybutne of such cops should be sent to Benin’s mother - official inconsistency?

[Rwmos]

"Because of people like you - we are in second place!"
Choc

[Bshkaus]

The Ministry of Health is currently discussing the idea of ​​a ban on the sale of alcohol in Russia to persons under the age of 21.

No problem! Only I, too, will not give up my son before the age of 21 ...
Why bother with souls, and if God forbid, you have to defend your homeland? In life, there are situations when, without 50 grams, you simply can’t do it for courage, especially in situations where nothing depends on you anymore and you’re just cannon fodder that was consumed.
I don’t know how others, but with age, the quantity has grown into quality.
Port wine "three axes" somehow I don't want to, but somehow not always enough for single malt whiskey at least 10 years old)))
So it turns out that I’m better tasting a glass of twelve-year-old Glenfidich once a month than every Friday a hundred grams of vodka or cheap beer.
By the way, the ban on the sale of alcohol after 10 pm also works well - how many times did you come for a weekend in a city on Friday evening, and you want a beer from the road, and then "take a bite".

[Rwmos]

You know, I gave my son to the army. They serve in the same place for a year ... I got joked, as he returned to me and told me. "Damn, well, they gave me a uniform ... That's just how you and Kosoy drove me at the training ground in Sofrino - there I learned a little more."
Presumably, this crap Ilyich managed to once put in a hand-to-hand instructor of the Sofrinsk brigade!

[Antares]

For reference: today the most "drinking" countries of the world are Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine. According to the results of the 2017 year, Russia was in the 8 place of the unofficial “rating” with an indicator of about 10 l of “absolute alcohol” per year per capita.

if the authors of the article are right, you must definitely name the source! Because there are many ratings for alcohol. But the main thing is for the World Health Organization! (And the same links to it will be the insinuation of many ratings, not always correct but different)
So consider 2018
source
https://nonews.co/directory/lists/countries/alcohol
Rating of countries in the world in terms of per capita alcohol consumption, expressed in liters of pure ethyl alcohol per capita (Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health). It is calculated according to the methodology of the World Health Organization (World Health Organization). The calculation takes into account persons aged 15 years and older
№ Country Consumption, l
1 Moldova 15,2
2 Lithuania 15,0
3 Czech Republic 14,4
4 Seychelles 13,8
5 Nigeria 13,4
6 Germany 13,4
7 Ireland 13,0
8 Luxembourg 13,0
9 Latvia 12,9
10 Bulgaria 12,7
11 France 12,6
12 Romania 12,6
13 Slovenia 12,6
14 Portugal 12,3
15 Belgium 12,1
16 Russia 11,7
...
61 Ukraine 8,6
But you can insert a rating for example a beer - there Ukraine is generally second. And the Russian Federation is far from it.
You can still have a couple of ratings there are different criteria. The same places in Russia and Ukraine are different ..
In general, consumption in Russia and in Ukraine is declining. (This means that either the population is smaller or larger than illegal)

[RUSS]

I buy "Ferein" spirit in Moscow in 5 liter bins, make infusions, etc.
And there are thousands like me.

[Lexeus]

We’ve been on moonshine for three years now, there’s a lot of singing in shops ...

[RUSS]

Quote: Lexey

We’ve been on moonshine for three years now, there’s a lot of singing in shops ...

Moreover, the palette and in chain stores