Medicinal alcohol wildly popular with Russians

moscow - Russians firmly believe that medical drinks by tens of percent alcohol does not cause any health risk. Each year, beat the Russians up to 600 million liters of backwards.

Medicinal drinks are relatively cheap pleasant, the Russian channel Life TV reported Wednesday. A bottle of so-called medicinal ethanol appears in the Kaluga region, not far from Moscow, already on sale for 29 cents. The consumer gets it for his health as 70 percent alcohol inside.

The Research Center for Federal and Regional Alcohol shares the alcohol users into three categories. The successful Russians, 2.85 euros for a liter of pure vodka can count down. The not so successful Russians who can afford to 1.45 euros for a liter of counterfeit vodka. Finally there are the Russians who have no success, and the buyers are cheap, so-called medicinal alcohol.