Rosstat has not yet published its figures for alcohol sales for But the data available for January to November suggests last year's alcohol consumption actually increased from the previous year, according to Yevgeny Yakovlev, an economics professor at the New Economic School in Moscow, who specialises in research into health and alcohol consumption in Russia.
Russians on average drank the equivalent of 6. The figure from the WHO for the same period is more than double the Rosstat one, at Part of that is because the WHO figure is divided by the population over the age of 15, not the total population. Yet his experience behind the bar and influence on Russian cocktail culture is considerable. During the early s, Narzi hosted the Prime Time Cocktail show on the national Russian channel RT, with the segment airing at the very on-brand time of p.
Narzi is also a published author with two books focusing on the hospitality industry. Suffice to say, Narzi is ideally placed to advise on how to drink vodka in a traditional Russian manner.
Read on to discover his sage advice. Though vodka has found a home in countless well-known cocktails, for an authentically Russian experience, Narzi says vodka must be drunk neat and as a shot.
Following the Russian Revolution in , Lenin banned vodka. After his death, however, Stalin used vodka sales to help pay for the socialist industrialization of the Soviet Union. By the s , receipts from alcohol again constituted a third of government revenues. One study found that alcohol consumption more than doubled between and , to Some have claimed that heavy consumption of alcohol was also used as a means of reducing political dissent and as a form of political suppression.
To date, there have been only two expansive anti-alcohol campaigns in Russia, both of which took place during the Soviet Union: one under Vladimir Lenin and the other under Mikhail Gorbachev.
All other leaders have either ignored alcoholism or acknowledged heavy alcohol consumption but did nothing substantial about it. It was largely seen as the most determined and effective plan to date: The birthrate rose, life expectancy increased, wives started seeing their husbands more, and work productivity improved.
However, after a spike in alcohol prices and a decrease in state alcohol production, some started hoarding sugar to make moonshine, and others poisoned themselves with substances such as antifreeze, as Erofeyev points out.
If you have concerns on that score too, you can just drink a tablespoonful of sunflower oil. On his first visit to Moscow, Santiago Fonseca from Mexico.
It is hard to believe it but I remained sober even having drunk a whole bottle of rather dubious vodka! Having said that, despite the fact that fat helps you to stay sober, it is also very important not to overeat and not to eat too many starchy and sweet foods as they generate more work for the liver and pancreas, making it more difficult for them to process alcohol.
Anastasia Knezhevich sells numerous varieties of vodka at her shop and has to spend a lot of time explaining to foreigners how vodka is consumed in Siberia, where she is originally from. Russian hangover remedies: Cucumbers, caviar, and a bath. According to Artyom Minayev, at a Russian dinner party it is important for a foreigner to show that he or she is a friendly person. To that end, it is necessary to drink the first two or three shots, after which it is possible to take a break to save energy for more to come.
I was at one dinner once where a Japanese guest kept pouring vodka only into his own glass.
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