<blockquote>'A new poll by the Public Opinion Foundation in fact finds that despite the government’s anti-alcohol initiatives in recent years, 36 percent of those surveyed said they were drinking more than they did earlier, and 41 percent said they were drinking just as much. Only 11 percent said they were drinking less.
Asked to compare the situation now with the one that existed in Soviet times, 45 percent of those sampled said they were certain that people are drinking more now than they did in the 1970s and 1980s, 20 percent said they didn’t think there had been any change, “and only nine percent spoke about a reduction in consumption.” '
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Moscow Says Russians are Drinking Less but Russians Say They’re Drinking More, April 12, 2014</blockquote>
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'..He wanted to save the whole Russian people like that, one at a time..'</blockquote>