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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."<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-vodka-historian-sees-parallels-between-now-and-past-wars-2023-4 Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows.], Business Insider, 2023</ref> | 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."<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-vodka-historian-sees-parallels-between-now-and-past-wars-2023-4 Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows.], Business Insider, 2023</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 04:45, November 7, 2023
In 2023, Russia had the second highest alcoholism rate in the world as far as it being a problem with both genders.[1] In addition, in 2023 Russia had the highest alcoholism rate for males.[2] In 2019, it was reported that every year 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[3]
Academic journal articles
- Soviet and Russian Statistics on Alcohol Consumption and Abuse, PubMed
- Alcohol mortality in Russia: assessment with representative survey data, Population and economics
Alcoholism in Russia and the war in Ukraine
- Putin’s ‘stressed’ administration staff start each day with bottle of vodka: report, NY Post, 2023
- 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
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."[1]