Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Indeed.



In the USA you can drink a beer or two and drive a car, while In Russia even after kvass, which is being sold even to children, you will be considered DUI and lose your driver's license. Read it again: a drink which is allowed and suggested to children (it's really healthy) is forbidden to car drivers, because it makes them officially DUI.

Most people here afraid to drink even kefir before they go to drive a car. Because in Russia after everything of that you will be considered by police as a drunk driver. You will be stopped, fined and you will lose your license (you can be stopped at any moment and the police officer will ask you to do the alcohol test "подуть в трубочку"). So please don't compare Russian and American laws about driving. The rules here are 100 times more strict than in the USA. I don't want to say there are no DUI's (course we also have many), but the level of DUI is a way different than in your country. Some abstract Homer Simpson can drink beer in a pub and then sit into a driver's place while an average Ivan Danko can't. Even one small shot of beer makes your officially drunk and 1+ to the country statistics.

On the other hand, as a passenger, I can drink vodka from a bottle right in front of a police car. I'm not a driver so I can do everything I want.