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Per capita consumption of pure ethanol in Russia fell by 43% between 2006 and 2016, according to the World Health Organization. Consumption had stood at around 11-12 litres per person annually in the early 2000s, one of the highest rates globally, and continued declining to about 10.5 litres by 2019.
By 1859, vodka was the source of more than 40% of the Russian government's revenue. Alcohol-related taxes continued to be central to state finances, still constituting one-third of Soviet government revenues by the 1970s.
78 people in Irkutsk died in December 2016 from a mass methanol poisoning involving a bath lotion consumed as a drink. President Medvedev responded by calling for a ban on non-traditional alcoholic liquids of that kind.
Russian males born in 2006 had a life expectancy of just over 60 years, approximately 17 years fewer than Western European men, according to a U.N. National Human Development Report. Male life expectancy improved to 68 years by 2018 as alcohol consumption declined.
Russia raised taxes on alcohol and introduced minimum unit pricing for vodka, banned alcohol sales nationally from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. starting in 2012, and prohibited alcohol advertising on television, radio, and other public platforms. In 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev nearly doubled the minimum price of a bottle of vodka.
Coding is an alternative therapy in which therapists claim to insert a code into a patient's brain that supposedly makes drinking even small amounts of alcohol extremely harmful or fatal. It has no support in Russian clinical guidelines, but enjoyed considerable popularity; its use has declined in recent years as information about its ineffectiveness has spread.