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Non-beverage alcohol consumption in Russia: new evidence from Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Alcohol and Alcoholism. 2024. Vol. 59. No. 1. Article agad087.
Aims. Previous studies in Izhevsk, Novosibirsk and Kazan have found that non-beverage alcohol takes huge part in alcohol consumption in Russia. Whereas those places are relatively well-doing cities, there is no studies about such problem in the most depressive regions of Russia. The aim of this study was to investigate correlates or factors associated with nonbeverage alcohol consumption in eastern Russian regions on the example of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and to assess effectiveness of implemented in Russia policies to control consumption of non-beverage alcohol. Methods. A survey of adults in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia was performed on workdays to assess non-beverage drinking patterns in summer 2022. The questionnaire included questions about socio-demographic status and alcohol use, including non-beverage alcohol consumption and drinking patterns. We use logistic regression for identifying risk factors of consuming non-beverages. Results. Firstly, about 30% of individuals suffering from alcohol problems drink non-beverage alcohol. Secondly, those who regularly consume non-beverage alcohol compared with those who chronically drink legal strong alcohol are on average more likely to experience the negative effects of alcohol consumption. Thirdly, income and marriage are the main factors that have a significant negative association with surrogate alcohol consumption, and age shows a curvilinear relationship. Conclusions. New anti-surrogate policy in Russia with the increase of the minimum price to pharmacy alcohol and strict enforcement of existing restrictions on the sale of non-beverage alcohol, which could further gain a foothold on the alcohol market in Russia with a drop in real incomes of the population, is needed.
Omelchenko E. L., Гарифзянова А. Р., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 № 2 С. 170–193
This article analyzes the situation of Muslims within the Russian penitentiary system. The empirical basis of the study is 74 biographical interviews with former prisoners conducted in three regions of Russia between 2019 and 2022. The analysis focuses on accounts by former male prisoners who identified themselves as Muslims and mentioned Islam and Muslim practices. ...
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Гарифзянова А. Р., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 № 2 С. 170–193
This article analyzes the situation of Muslims within the Russian penitentiary system. The empirical basis of the study is 74 biographical interviews with former prisoners conducted in three regions of Russia between 2019 and 2022. The analysis focuses on accounts by former male prisoners who identified themselves as Muslims and mentioned Islam and Muslim practices. ...
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Mkrtchyan N. V., Известия РАН. Серия географическая 2026 Т. 90 № 1 С. 231–245
Objective of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Russian Near
North (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure facilities and to
analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with varying levels of provision of
these facilities. The study is based on data collected from open ...
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Tikhonova N. E., Социологическая наука и социальная практика 2025 Т. 14 № 1 С. 81–107
Taking into account the relevance of the problem of euthanasia in the context of the
increase in severe cancer and genetic diseases, the article shows, based on the data of the Monitoring of the IS FCTAS RAS 2024 (N = 2000) and the World Values Survey (2006 and
2017–2022), that in their attitude towards euthanasia, Russians are divided ...
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Shcherbakov R., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 216–235
The aim of this study is to identify factors related to the use of cybersecurity practices among the Russian population. The author considers factors such as socioeconomic status (gender, age, higher education, type of settlement, and financial situation) and ex-perience of exposure to digital risk (the fact of being exposed to risks and declared con-cerns ...
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Kazun A. D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 192–215
This article examines how Russians conceptualize the groups most vulnerable to fake news. Drawing on 119 semi-structured interviews conducted in spring 2024, I find clear evidence of the third-person effect: participants believe that disinformation primarily threatens “others” who differ from them on salient dimensions. Age is the most common basis for dividing society into “us” ...
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Maltseva D., Shcheglova T., Vashchenko V., Социологические исследования 2026 № 1 С. 62–74
The article continues to present the results of the analysis of collaboration networks of Russian sociologists in 2010–2021. It was conducted on the basis of data on co-authorship of scientific articles indexed in the electronic library eLibrary (75,232 scientific publications on sociology). The methodology of bibliometric network analysis implies the construction of several types of ...
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Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
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Kuzminov Y., Ovcharova L., Radaev V., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 5–16
This article introduces the special issue of the journal “Voprosy Ekonomiki”, which focuses on household economic behavior. The issue is based on the “Economic Behavior of Households” project, which has been implemented at the Higher School of Economics since 2023. The project consists of two components: a field component, which involves collecting sociological data, and ...
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Грудников Н. С., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2025 № 88 С. 165–178
This article describes the Russian restorative justice movement using the sociological theory of intellectual movements by S. Frickel and N. Gross. By using the heuristic possibilities offered by this theory, it was possible to construct a historical and sociological reconstruction of the emergence, formation and institutionalization of the Russian restorative justice movement. This movement was ...
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Грудников Н. С., Социология науки и технологий 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 241–255
This article examines the key tenets of the theory of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs) developed by Scott Frickel and Neil Gross, while demonstrating its connection to the recent interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Until recently, sociology lacked a theory with a universal explanatory power for analyzing intellectual movements. The Frickel — Gross framework ...
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Kruchinskaia E., Gruzdev I., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 96–114
The article is devoted to the analysis of the economic profile of the high-income population in Russia, a group that, despite its status as a significant player in the economy, which largely determines the demand for goods and services, as well as setting consumer trends for it, remains understudied. This is a global scientific lacuna ...
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Asia and Africa today 2026 No. 4 P. 70–76
Inclusive education refers to a setting where neurotypical and neurodiverse pupils attend the same school and where barriers are eliminated to promote equitable academic and social involvement. Although inclusive education has drawn attention from throughout the world, it is still relatively new in Nigeria and faces several challenges, including a teacher shortage, a lack of ...
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Моисеева Д. В., Kuzina O. E., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 76–95
Оценены масштабы финансовой (не)устойчивости населения, которая определяется как (не)способность справиться с возможными неожиданными финансовыми трудностями, вызванными значительным снижением доходов или крупными, непредвиденными расходами. Предложена методика оценки масштабов финансовой (не)устойчивости россиян на основании трех критериев:
1) в широком определении к финансово неустойчивым отнесены домохозяйства с высокой долговой нагрузкой или без ликвидных сбережений;
2) в узком определении критерий высокой ...
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Kazenin K., Zakharov S. V., Billingsley S., Population, space and place 2026 Vol. 32 No. 2 P. 1–19
Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention. Varying demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of ethnic groups in Russia provide a unique opportunity ...
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Sorokina I., Социологические исследования 2026 № 4 С. 31–42
This article examines conceptual and terminological inconsistencies in studies of job
quality, quality of employment, and quality of working life within English- and Russian- language academic
literature. Through a systematic review of publications, the study examines key concepts such as job
quality, quality of employment, decent work, and quality of working life, identifying their conceptual
distinctions, disciplinary specificities, and ...
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Mylonas Y., L.: Routledge, 2026.
This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash. It demonstrates how culture serves as a crucial site for capturing the contemporary "structure of feeling", publicly mediating the period's ...
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Sadykova E., Kolosnitsyna M., Население и экономика 2026 Т. 10 № 1 С. 106–140
In recent decades, Russia has pursued an active anti-alcohol policy. This includes the use of price measures (introducing a minimum price for alcohol and increasing excise taxes). However, after 2017, the effectiveness of these measures has declined, and overall alcohol consumption has increased. This study analyzes how people with different income levels respond to changes ...
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Kolosnitsyna M., Вопросы экономики 2024 № 1 С. 75–93
Since the mid-noughties of this century, Russia has intensified its state policy of combating excessive alcohol consumption. In particular, a minimum price threshold for vodka was introduced, excise taxes on alcohol in alcoholic beverages were substantially increased, and a mandatory ban on nighttime retail sales was introduced. A number of studies using Russian microdata have ...
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Kolosnitsyna M., Sukhanova V., Applied Econometrics 2023 Vol. 69 P. 28–47
Price elasticity is an important indicator of alcohol consumption. The success of an alcohol policy largely depends on how sensitive the demand is to the price. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of vodka price changes on the amount of vodka and pure alcohol consumed by Russian citizens exploiting the variation ...
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Zamyatnina E., Демографическое обозрение 2022 Т. 9 № 2 С. 102–118
The aims of this paper are to study the structure of mortality from directly-related alcohol mortality (mortality causes with the word "alcohol" in the name) and life-expectancy losses in Russia in 2011-2021 years.
Despite the general trend towards a decrease in directly-related alcohol mortality, its increase was observed twice in the studied time interval. In 2014-2015 ...
Added: October 26, 2022
Skorobogatov A., Health Economics 2021 Vol. 30 No. 6 P. 1417–1442
This paper examines the tough anti-alcohol legislation recently introduced in Russia, which due to regional variation allows it to be used as a natural experiment. The effect of the restricted trading hours on alcoholic poisoning mortality is estimated. To establish a causal link, difference-in-differences and synthetic controls are used. The main conclusion is that the ...
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Зуйкова Н. Л., Вестник Витебского государственного медицинского университета 2014 Т. 3 № 4 С. 117–125
В статье приводятся результаты клинического исследования, направленного на изучение клинических особенностей вторичной АЗ у лиц, страдающих психическими расстройствами, а также влияние этих особенностей на обращаемость пациентов за антиалкогольной помощью и результативность различных видов антиалкогольной терапии. Было проведено клиническое обследование 108 пациентов (93 мужчины и 15 женщин), страдающих психическими расстройствами, сочетанными с алкогольной зависимостью. Истинная алкогольная ...
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Belova Y., В кн.: Формы и методы социальной работы в различных сферах жизнедеятельности: материалы VIII Международной научно-практической конференции (3-5 октября 2019 г.).: Улан-Удэ: ВСГУТУ, 2019. С. 23–24.
В современной России поколение застоя представлено возрастной когортой 52-72-летних и хотя к данному возрастному периоду потребление алкоголя в целом снижается, тем не менее нельзя игнорировать, что и в ней есть люди, нуждающиеся в помощи, связанной с отказом от интенсивного потребления алкоголя. Статья посвящена специфическим стратегиям отказа от потребления алкоголя «бывшими алкоголезависимыми» людьми, взрослевшими в эпоху застоя, ...
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