Russian restaurants and pubs may stop alcohol sales from January 1st

Russian restaurants, pubs and cafes may be forced to stop selling alcoholic beverages from January 1st.

The main reason for this will be new rules, according to which restaurants, pubs and cafes will have to fix their wholesale purchases of alcoholic beverages in the Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS). In addition, this procedure costs 80 thousand rubles.

Only about 500 companies Moscow have joined USAIS, which is only 10% of the total number.