All the evidence points to alcohol being implicated in the recent changes in mortality in Russia.
Balkau
B
B
D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D000431:Ethanol / Q000506:poisoning; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology
D000431:Ethanol