In Russia they want to ban discounts on alcohol

The government has instructed to prepare a ban on discounts on alcoholic beverages. These data on Saturday, December 14, follow from the order of the Cabinet of Ministers, published on the official portal of legal information.

"Analysis of the practice of application of discounts from the price of alcoholic products <...> and preparation of proposals on the possibility of establishing a ban on the application," the document says.

It is planned to implement the ban until April 15 next year.

Responsible for the implementation will be appointed Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Health, Rospotrebnadzor, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Agriculture.

Before that, on October 31, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation supported the initiatives of regional authorities to limit the sale of alcohol. As Deputy Head of the Department of Risk Factor Prevention and Communication Technologies in Healthcare of the Central Research Institute of Organization and Informatization of Healthcare of the Ministry of Health of Russia Viktor Zykov noted, alcohol abuse is one of the causes of chronic diseases and early death.

Earlier, on October 29, the governor of the Vologda region Georgy Filimonov said that the region plans to limit the sale of alcohol to two hours a day. Thus, from March 1, 2025, alcohol may start selling from 12:00 to 14:00 on weekdays, and the usual mode will remain on weekends and holidays. Filimonov explained such a decision by the high mortality rate of the population in the region.

On the same day, the head of the Sverdlovsk region's parliament, Lyudmila Babushkina, said that the regional authorities were considering the introduction of a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in the region.