Vodka Politics (109 page)

55
. Anatoly Miranovsky, “Kuril’shchiki i p’yanitsy zaplatyat ‘nalog’ na vrednye privichki,”
Pravda
, Sept. 2, 2010,
http://www.pravda.ru/economics/finance/02–09-2010/1047661-tax-0
(accessed Sept. 11, 2010).

56
. M. J. Akbar, “Wanted: A Nobel Prize for Honesty,”
Arab News
, Sept. 11, 2010,
http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article134636.ece?comments=all
(accessed Sept. 11, 2010); “Kudrin: Finance Minister of the Year,”
RT.com
, Oct. 11, 2010,
http://rt.com/news/kudrineuromoney-award-2010
(accessed Nov. 5, 2010).

57
. Anatoly Karlin, “The Uncertain Future of Cheap Russian Booze,”
Sublime Oblivion
, April 28, 2011,
http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2011/04/28/future-of-russian-booze
(accessed April 30, 2011); Mark Lawrence Schrad, “Moscow’s Drinking Problem,”
New York Times
, April 16, 2011, W8,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17Schrad.html?_r=1&hpw
(accessed April 18, 2011); “Vladimir Putin Speaks out against Sharp Rises in Prices on Alcohol in Russia,” BCM News Portal, April 1, 2011,
http://www.newsbcm.com/doc/725
(accessed April 2, 2011).

58
. Michael Schwirtz, “Russian President Ousts Finance Minister, a Putin Ally, for Insubordination,”
New York Times
, Sept. 27, 2011, A4; For
RT.com
video coverage see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpCVLv-1mpA/
.

Chapter 24

1
. Oleg Blotskii,
Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizny
(Moscow: Mezhdunarodnaya otnosheniya, 2001), 68–69; cited in Masha Gessen,
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2012), 48–49.

2
. David Remnick, “The Civil Archipelago: How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go?”
New Yorker
, Dec. 19, 2011,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/12/19/111219fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all
(accessed Dec. 25, 2011). On the fight being a “bit of a snoozer,” see Steve Barry, “M-1 Global ‘Fedor vs. Monson’ Results: Fedor Emelianenko Snaps Three-Fight Losing-Streak,”
MMA Convert
, Nov. 20, 2011,
http://www.mmaconvert.com/2011/11/20/m-1-global-fedor-vs-monson-results-fedor-emelianenko-snaps-three-fight-losing-streak
(accessed March 16, 2012).

3
. Michael David Smith, “Booing of Putin at Fedor Fight Draws International Interest,”
MMAFighting.com
, Nov. 21, 2011,
http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/11/21/booingof-putin-at-fedor-fight-draws-international-interest
(accessed March 17, 2012); Remnick, “Civil Archipelago.”

4
. Vladimir Ryzhkov, “The Dirtiest Elections in Post-Soviet History,”
Moscow Times
, Dec. 2, 2011.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-dirtiest-elections-in-post-soviet-history/449079.html/
(accessed Dec. 3, 2011); AP, “An Insider’s Account of Vote Rigging,”
Moscow Times
, Dec. 7, 2011,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/an-insiders-account-of-vote-rigging-for-putin/449455.html
(accessed Dec. 8, 2011).

5
. Nikolaus von Twickel, “Media Thaw’s Staying Power Hotly Debated,”
Moscow Times
, March 16, 2012,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/media-thaws-staying-power-hotly-debated/454836.html
(accessed March 16, 2012).

6
. Iris Hoßmann et al.,
Europe’s Demographic Future: Growing Imbalances
(Berlin: Berlin Institute for Population and Development, 2008), 3; United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section, “World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision,”
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/country-profiles/country-profiles_1.htm
(accessed March 17, 2012). See also Howard Amos, “Russia’s Ghost Towns,”
Global Post
, July 26, 2011,
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/110720/russia-rural-population-demographics
(accessed July 28, 2011).

7
. John Bongaarts and Rodolfo A. Bulatao, eds.,
Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World’s Population
(Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000), 278; Jeremy Singer-Vine, “Crowded, with a Chance of Overcrowded,”
Slate
, Jan. 27, 2011,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/01/crowded_with_a_chance_of_overcrowded.html
(accessed Jan. 28, 2012).

8
. David Zaridze et al., “Alcohol and Cause-Specific Mortality in Russia: A Retrospective Case-Control Study of 48,557 Adult Deaths,”
The Lancet
373 (2009): 2213.

9
. Belarusian trends largely conform to the Russian experience. Anatolii G. Vishnevskii, “Rossiya pered demograficheskim vyborom,” 74–75; Dar’ya A. Khalturina and Andrei V. Korotaev, “Vvedeniye: Alkogol’naya katastrofa: Kak ostanovit’ vymiranie Rossii,” 43, both in
Alkogol’naya katastrofa i vozmozhnosti gosudarstvennoi politiki v preodolenii alkogol’noi sverkosmertnosti v Rossii
, ed. Dar’ya A. Khalturina and Andrei V. Korotaev (Moscow: Lenand, 2010).

10
. Sergei Scherbov and Wolfgang Lutz,
Future Regional Population Patterns in the Soviet Union: Scenarios to the Year 2050
, IIASA Working Paper No. WP-88–104 (Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA, 1988), 14–15. See also Svetlana Soboleva,
Migration and Settlement: Soviet Union
, IIASA Working Paper No. WP-80-45 (Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA, 1980): 130.

11
. Elena Arakelyan, “Kazhdyi tretii rossiyanin vypivaet na rabote,”
Komsomol’skaya pravda
, March 22, 2012,
http://amur.kp.ru/daily/25855.4/2823658/
(accessed March 23, 2012).

12
. Philip Hanson, “The Russian Economy and Its Prospects,” in
Putin Again: Implications for Russia and the West
(London: Chatham House, 2012), 22–29.

13
. See text accompanying note 8 of
chapter 7
. On vodka politics and beer see David M. Herszenhorn, “New Beer Law Draws Cautious Support, with Notes of Pessimism,”
New York Times
, Jan. 7, 2013, A8,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/world/europe/russian-beer-law-draws-support-and-some-pessimism.html
(accessed Jan. 7, 2013).

14
. O. G. von Heidenstam,
Swedish Life in Town and Country
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 193–94.

15
. Ibid., 193. For Swedish consumption statistics see Statens folkhälsoinstitut (Swedish National Institute of Public Health),
Försäljning av spritdrycker, vin och öl i Sverige under åren 1861–1999
(Stockholm: Statens folkhälsoinstitut), 12–16; Switzerland Bureau fédéral de statistique,
Question de l’alcoolisme. Exposé comparatif des lois et des expériences de quelques états étrangers, par le bureau fédéral de statistique
(Berne: Imprimerie K.-J. Wyss, 1884), 672.

16
. von Heidenstam,
Swedish Life in Town and Country
, 187, 93. See also Victor Nilsson,
Sweden
(New York: Co-Operative Publication Society, 1899), 387.

17
. Johan Pontén,
Historia kring alkoholen: Från Syndafloden till dagens Sverige
(Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1967), 72–88; Hanna Hodacs, “Det civiliserade, protestantiska och nyktra Europa: Om nykterhetstankens spridning i det tidiga 1800-talets Sverige,”
Spiritus
, no. 4 (2002): 14–16; Nykterhetskommittén,
Betänkande VI, 1: Redogörelse för lagstiftningen i Sverige om rusdryckers försäljning, 1800–1911
(1914), 9341 Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek, Stockholm, 14–22. Temperance membership data from Carl-Goran Andræ and Sven Lundkvist, Swedish Popular Movement Archive (Folkrörelsearkivet), 1881–1950; Swedish Social Science Data Service (Svensk Samhällsvetenskaplig Datatjänst),
http://snd.gu.se
(accessed Feb. 29, 2012).

18
. John Bergvall,
Restriktionssystemet: Hur det kommit till, hur det arbetar, vad det uträttat
(Norrtelje: Nortelje Tidnings Boktryckeri AB, 1929), 9; Nykterhetskommittén,
Betänkande VI, 1
, 41–42; Olov Kinberg, “Temperance Legislation in Sweden,”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
163 (1932); Per Frånberg, “Den svenska supen,” in
Den svenska supen
, ed. Kettil Bruun and Per Frånberg (Stockholm: Prisma, 1985), 34.

19
. L. Pankrat’ev, “Vinnyi aktsiz,” in
Sovremennik: Zhurnal literaturnyi i politicheskii (s 1859 goda
), ed. Ivan Panaev and Nikolai Nekrasov (St. Petersburg: Tipografiya Karla Vul’fa, 1859), 106.

20
. Mark Lawrence Schrad,
The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 151–55.

21
. Boris Yeltsin, “Enough of Our Drinking Vodka Made Who Knows Where,”
Current Digest of the Russian Press
49, no. 37 (1997): 11–12; Paul Klebnikov, “Who Will Be the Next Ruler of Russia?”
Forbes.com
, Nov. 16, 1998,
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1116/6211152a.html
(accessed Nov. 5, 2010).

22
. Interfax News Agency, “State Monopoly Necessary to Tackle Alcoholism in Russia—Public Health Chief,” Johnson’s Russia List (JRL) No. 2009–171, Sept. 14, 2009,
http://www.russialist.org/2009-171-19.php
(accessed Aug. 8, 2013).

23
. Margarita Bogdanova, “Russian Presidential Campaign Nears Final Stage,” Press TV, Feb. 26, 2012,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228813.html
(accessed Feb. 27, 2012). Also see Gleb Bryanski, “Russian Communists Flirt with Medvedev,” Reuters, Nov. 7, 2009,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/07/us-russia-communists-medvedev-idUSTRE5A60VO20091107
(accessed Feb. 27, 2012); Mark Lawrence Schrad, “Kicking the Vodka Habit,”
Moscow Times
, Nov. 3, 2006.

24
. Schrad, “Kicking the Vodka Habit.”

25
. Sturla Nordlund, “Alkogol’naya politika skandinavskikh stran: Nauchnye osnovaniya, empiricheskie issledovaniya i perspektivy,” 297; Esa Osterberg, “Kakie mekhanizmy bor’by s alkogolem yavlyayutsya effektivnymi i ekonomicheski tselesoobraznymi,” 271; and Øyvind Horverak, “Chto nuzhno dlya uspekha alkogol’noi politiki: Opyt Norvegii,” all in
Alkogol’naya katastrofa i vozmozhnosti gosudarstvennoi politiki v preodolenii alkogol’noi sverkosmertnosti v Rossii
, ed. Dar’ya A. Khalturina and Andrei V. Korotaev (Moscow: Lenand, 2010); Ol’ga Kostenko and Syuzanna Gadzhieva, “Kak ne propit’ Rossiyu,”
Argumenty i fakty
, May 10, 2012,
http://www.aif.ru/society/article/51901
(accessed May 12, 2012).

26
. Artyom Gil et al., “Alcohol Policy in a Russian Region: A Stakeholder Analysis,”
European Journal of Public Health
(2010): 6.

27
. Ivan R. Mintslov, “Monopoliya torgovli spirtnymi napitkami v nekotorykh inostrannykh gosudarstvakh i v Rossii,”
Trudy Kommissii po Voprosu ob Alkogolizm: Zhurnaly zasedanii i doklady
1 (1898): 73; Vladislav D. Shidlovskii, “Obzor deyatel’nosti, napravlennoi na bor’bu s p’yanstvom v Severnoi Amerike i Zapadnoi Evrope,”
Trudy Kommissii po Voprosu ob Alkogolizm: Zhurnaly zasedanii i doklady
3 (1899): 86; Irina R. Takala,
Veselie Rusi: Istoriia alkogol’noi problemy v Rossii
(St. Petersburg: Zhurnal Neva, 2002), 146–53. On Russian impressions of the Gothenburg system more generally, see I. A. Krasnov, “Luchshe men’she ne luchshe. ‘Gottenburgskaya sistema’ i polemika o piteinoi kul’ture v Rossii na rubezhe XIX-XX veka,” in:
Alkogol’ v Rossii: Materialy pervoi mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii
(Ivanovo, 29–30 oktyabrya 2010), ed. Mikhail V. Teplyanskii (Ivanovo: Filial RGGU v g. Ivanovo, 2010), 22–26.

28
. Mikhail Fridman,
Vinnaya monopoliya
, tom 1:
Vinnaya monopoliya v inostrannykh gosudarstvakh
(St. Petersburg: Pravda, 1914), 548. See also John F. Hutchinson, “Science, Politics and the Alcohol Problem in Post-1905 Russia,”
Slavonic and East European Review
58, no. 2 (1980): 241–42. On Russian interest in the Gothenburg System see also f. 586 (Plevhe, Vyacheslav K.), op. 1, d. 275 (Stat’ya iz gazety “Morning Post” o prodazhe spirtnykh napitkov v Anglii), l.1, Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiskoi Federatsii (GARF) (State archive of the Russian Federation), Moscow; Alexis Raffalovich, “The State Monopoly of Spirits in Russia, and Its Influence on the Prosperity of the Population,”
Journal of the Royal Statistics Society
64, no. 1 (1901): 24–28; Dmitrii N. Borodin, “Vinnaya monopoliya,”
Trudy Kommissii po Voprosu ob Alkogolizm: Zhurnaly zasedanii i doklady
3 (1899); L. K. Dymsha, “Kazennaya vinnaya monopoliya i eya znachenie dlya bor’by s p’yanstvom,”
Trudy Kommissii po Voprosu ob Alkogolizm: zhurnaly zasedanii i doklady
4 (1900).

29
. VTsIOM, “What Russians Are Afraid Of: Press Release No. 1299,”
Russian Public Opinion Research Center
1299 (2010), and “August Problem Background: Press Release No. 1383,”
Russian Public Opinion Research Center
1383 (2011),
http://wciom.com/index.php?id=61&uid=411
(accessed Feb. 2, 2012). Anna Bailey, “Russian Public Opinion on Alcohol: What the Opinion Polls Tell Us, and What They Don’t,” in:
Alkogol’ v Rossii: Materialy tret’ei mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii
(Ivanovo, 26–27 oktyabrya 2012), ed. Mikhail V. Teplyanskii (Ivanovo: Filial RGGU v g. Ivanovo, 2012), 121. See also note 3 of the preface.