Check out the Life expectancy report (<a href="https://worldoscope.cxjs.io/8nhpbo6" rel="nofollow">https://worldoscope.cxjs.io/8nhpbo6</a>).<p>Below the Life Expectancy in Russia - Female vs Male (1966-2014) it says:
"The Forbes article also states - "What’s interesting is that alcohol-related deaths fluctuated with the times. After Mikhail Gorbachev's 1985 alcohol restrictions, the authors point out, alcohol consumption – and deaths – fell by 25%. But after the fall of communism, both went way up. And after the alcohol policy reforms in 2006, consumption was reduced again by about a third." You can see the ups and downs connected with the mentioned years in the graph above."<p>It's remarkable how life expectancy in Russia seems to be directly correlated to alcohol consumption, as can be seen on the graph. Each event mentioned in the quote is followed by the appropriate change of the life expectancy on the graph (alcohol consumption presumably goes up, life expectancy goes down and vice versa).<p>The graph coloring is a bit misleading though, having blue represent the female and red the male population. :)