Essay: Russia has the 2nd highest rate of alcoholism in the world
In 2019, it was reported that every year 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[3]
In 2023, Business Insider reported: "Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows."[4]
Jerusalem Post: Many Russian troop deaths tied to alcohol, gun accidents, hypothermia -UK, 2023
Low Russian Orthodox Church attendance in Russia:
In 2022, it was reported that attendance at Russian Orthodox Church services in Russia has dropped to around one percent.[5]
Also, according to a 2019 report "Using data from surveys carried out by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018, the sociologist Yana Roshchina worked out that while almost 81 percent of adult Russians consider themselves Orthodox, this is often a declaration of identity rather than faith. Just 6 percent of the population and 43 percent of believers go to church several times a month. According to Interior Ministry statistics, 4.3 million people across the country attended Easter services in 2019 – around 100,000 fewer than a year before."[6]
Pew Research reported in 2017: "Relatively few Orthodox or Catholic adults in Central and Eastern Europe say they regularly attend worship services, pray often or consider religion central to their lives. For example, a median of just 10% of Orthodox Christians across the region say they go to church on a weekly basis."[7]
Another reason why I don't wet my pants every night due to Russian, sabre rattling, nuclear war threats:
- Putin's administration staff 'are starting the day with a bottle of vodka and Security Council's Dmitry Medvedev is often drunk when he writes his apocalyptic threats of nuclear war', Daily Mail, June 2023
- Putin’s ‘stressed’ administration staff start each day with bottle of vodka: report, New York Post, 2023
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Russia soldiers, alcoholism and the war in Ukraine
- Russian troops are battling high and drunk: It’s nothing new, The Hill, July 2023
In 2023, Business Insider reported: "Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows."[8]
Jerusalem Post: Many Russian troop deaths tied to alcohol, gun accidents, hypothermia -UK, 2023
Drunk Russian plane passengers can get very unruly!
- A Russian Plane Had to Make an Emergency Landing After a Drunk Passenger Tried to Hijack It, Time magazine, 2019
- Russian passenger tied to seat with sticky tape after trying to break into plane cockpit, Independent, 2019
- Drunk Russian passenger faces six years in jail for ‘air hooliganism’. Stewardess breaks leg in struggle, New York Post, 2019
*Russian passenger Threatens to Blow Up Plane Unless He's Given Alcohol, Newsweek, 2023
*A Russian Plane Had to Make an Emergency Landing After a Drunk Passenger Tried to Hijack It, Time magazine, 2019
*Russian passenger tied to seat with sticky tape after trying to break into plane cockpit, Independent, 2019
*Drunk Russian passenger faces six years in jail for ‘air hooliganism’. Stewardess breaks leg in struggle, New York Post, 2019
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Notes
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Demographic crisis in Russia by Adam Gwiazda, 2019
- ↑ Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows., Business Insider, 2023
- ↑ attendance at Russian Orthodox church services in Russia has dropped to around one percent.
- ↑ Russians Are Not Waiting for a Church Boom, 2019
- ↑ Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe, Pew Research, 2017
- ↑ Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows., Business Insider, 2023
- ↑ Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows., Business Insider, 2023
