Police fired for drunken Red Square drive
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three off-duty Russian policemen were fired Monday for driving drunk through Moscow's Red Square in the early hours of the morning, dressed in their police uniforms.
"A medical examination revealed that all three policemen were drunk," Moscow City Police said in a statement about the incident which took place Friday.
"(They have) tarnished the honour and dignity of police officers."
Russians are some of the world's heaviest drinkers and demographers often cite high alcohol consumption as a factor in the low life expectancy of Russian men.
The image of national airline Aeroflot's subsidiary Aeroflot-Nord was dealt a serious blow earlier this year when alcohol was found in the blood of one of its pilots who crashed over the Urals, killing 88 people on board.
Since when is drunk driving a crime in Russia? I thought it was commom practice to have at least a pint of vodka in one's system at any given point in the day. I read another story the other day about Russian plan passengers who had to tackle a drunken pilot just before takeoff. Russians love drinking but in their defense I would be a ruthless alchoholic if I lived in that frozen hell hole.
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