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鈥淵ou know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country. Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster.鈥� So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched a major anti-alcohol initiative. Digging beneath the fa莽ades of public interest and government hegemony, I challenge the standard narrative of subsequent alcohol policy as top鈥揹own implementation imposed in the interests of public health. Rather, policy is the ad hoc result of battles between policy actors with vested interests. These policy outcomes have sometimes been contrary to the government鈥檚 stated aims. In particular, a powerful vodka interest located within the state itself has grown in influence since 2009, and has used the 鈥榓nti-alcohol campaign鈥� as a front to push policies that reduce the competitiveness of its main rival 鈥� the multinational beer industry.

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