Russian authorities offered to allow selling beer in sports stadiums. According to RBC, the amendments are going to make a second reading of the draft law. Moreover, the innovation will be distributed not only on football, but also to other sports.
Means received by sports federations and professional sports leagues from the sale of beers will be sent to the development of professional and children-youth sports. At the same time, beer and beer drinks still can not be sold during the tourists, during which children’s and youthful competitions are coming.
in the policeport believe that the law will be accepted in the near future. “It’s probably in the fall of the prospects for his adoption and from next year he will begin to act,” Azat Kadyrov suggested. In the second reading, the document will be considered after the September elections to the State Duma.
Selling beer in sports facilities and events banned in Russia from January 1, 2005. Since then, the idea of returning beer to stadiums regularly advanced. In 2018, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov spoke about it. It happened after the completion of the World Cup in Russia, where the exception was made to sell beer. In the summer of the same year, the relevant bill was introduced into the State Duma.
Against alcohol during sports events actively acts about the organization “Sober Russia”. Her position was supported by the Ministry of Health. In particular, the department said that the sale of beer on sports facilities would negatively affect children and adolescents. They have a sport can begin to be associated with mandatory alcohol use, and an appropriate culture can be formed.