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The Federal Parliament has adopted on its first reading a bill that, among other things, recognizes beer as an alcoholic product and introduces a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol the night, according to ITAR-TASS. The bill fixes the notion of beer as an alcoholic beverage produced from malt, hops and yeast, with an ethanol content of at least 0.5 per cent in the finished product. In addition, beverages manufactured on the basis of beer, with ethanol contents of up to seven percent, are also to be classified as alcoholic beverages. The sales of alcoholic beverages will be banned...