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MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s top health official urged the government Tuesday to introduce a state monopoly on alcohol amid the rising death toll from bootleg vodka in the country. Russia has recently been swept by large-scale outbreaks of alcohol poisoning in several regions as bootleg vodka and poisonous substitutes have been sold at low prices in the country. Hundreds of Russians have died and several thousand others have been hospitalized in Russia with toxic hepatitis caused by substandard vodka in recent weeks. Gennady Onishchenko said alcohol consumption has increased considerably in the country in the last 10 years. "In the 1990s, per capita consumption of alcohol stood at 7.6 liters. In 2005, the figure was already 9.7 liters," Onishchenko said. Onishchenko said his department and the Interior Ministry were taking active measures to expose bootleg vodka and alcohol substitutes. Some critics have blamed a new alcohol regulation policy, introduced in July, for causing widespread confusion and an attendant shortage of alcohol, leading many to resort to substandard bootleg liquor.


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only harm rather than be helpful there. As it often happens in international law, it is possible to choose the most befitting instrument for the specific geopolitical, historic, diplomatic, military, economic and disputed territorial conditions. This is what interpretation of an ambiguous decision is all about.

The trouble is that non-identical twins like Kosovo or Abkhazia can also interpret the decisions of The Hague Court the way they see fit, and there are many more of them than it may seem at first sight.

Unrecognized states (or recognized by many or several countries, or by one state) include Kosovo (recognized by 65 out of 192 UN members), Abkhazia and South Ossetia (recognized by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru). There are also other states like Taiwan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Somaliland, Transdnestr, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Armenia (unrecognized by Pakistan), the Palestinian Autonomy, Israel (unrecognized by 20 Muslim countries), South

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