The Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation or Rosalkogolregulirovanie (in
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responsible for drafting and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol and alcohol products, as well as functions to control the production and trafficking ethyl alcohol and alcohol-containing products, to oversee and provide services in this area
The Service is under the jurisdiction of the
Federal Government of Russia.
History
The Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation was established by Presidential Decree from 31 December 2008 No. 1883 "On the formation of the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation".
Presidential Decree No. 1883, "On the establishment of the Federal Service for Alcoholic market regulation"
Official website
In Section 2 of the Government direction from 24 February 2009 No. 154 "On the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation," found that the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation is the unification of various functions from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, the Federal Tax Service and the Federal Service for Tariff in respect of all obligations in the sphere of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol and alcohol-containing products, including obligations arising from the execution of court decisions.
On November 30, 2009 the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation issued an order No. 17 "On the establishment and administration of the minimum price of vodka for retail sale until January 1, 2010" according to which from 1 January 2010, the minimum price of vodka for retail sale was set at a rate of 89 rubles per 0.5 liter of the finished product (€2.52 per liter circa).
Directors
A list of directors since 2008:
* 2008–2018: Igor Chuyan
* 2018–: Igor Alyoshin
See also
* Alcoholism in Russia
*Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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*Bureau of Prohibition
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*Vodka
Vodka ( pl, wódka , russian: водка , sv, vodka ) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage. Different varieties originated in Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Vodka is composed mainly of water and ethanol but sometimes with traces of impuritie ...
*Prohibition in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
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External links
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References
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Alcohol abuse in Russia
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