Abstract
Three dimensions of alcohol issues as policy issues in transitional Russia are described in this review. Contrary to the widely held international view, health aspects may not be the primary concern in today's debate on alcohol in Russia. Instead, concerns about economic aspects and questions of social and public order are now at the fore. Social order, then, is about power relationships between the central power and regions, and between legal and illegal actors in alcohol production and trade. The existing scattered information on recent legislation reforms on alcohol issues indicate that the central power is tightening its grip, although the decisive question of enforcement still remains to be answered. There is some indication that the most dramatic peaks of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm may have been passed already at the mid-1990s.
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