{"id":3994,"date":"2009-12-16T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:44:31","slug":"booze-crackdown-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/16\/booze-crackdown-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Booze crackdown in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3995\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/vodka-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"vodka\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The Russian government wants to use price controls and a crackdown on bootlegged vodka <a title=\"to cut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aJiCVXqjsI7Y\" target=\"_blank\">to cut <\/a>that nation&#8217;s &#8220;colossal drinking&#8221; by 72 percent over the next decade.\u00a0 International relations and sociology Professor <a title=\"Walter Connor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/connor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Connor<\/a>, a Russian politics expert who once ran the State Department&#8217;s Foreign Service Institute, says such a cultural turn-around will be tough.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Everyday health habits in Russia have not improved since Communism\u2019s fall. Any commitment of government resources to goals as ambitious as the ones outlined for this plan would have to be massive beyond experience.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Walter Connor, 617-353-2171, <a href=\"mailto:wdconnor@bu.edu\">wdconnor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government wants to use price controls and a crackdown on bootlegged vodka to cut that nation&#8217;s &#8220;colossal drinking&#8221; by 72 percent over the next decade.\u00a0 International relations and sociology Professor Walter Connor, a Russian politics expert who once ran the State Department&#8217;s Foreign Service Institute, says such a cultural turn-around will be tough. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2426,2427,1456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}