After decades of futile tactics to wean them off the bottle, Russia's alcoholics may have finally met their match in a scheme set up by a coalition of exasperated wives and entrepreneurs.
The state tried sending them to remote gulags, private institutions attempted everything from mind-manipulation to sorcery, but "The Register of Non-Drinking Men", its compilers are convinced, could succeed where all before have failed.
Committees of women who are or were married to alcoholics will interview men across the country and decide whether they qualify for entry to a teetotallers' database that will then be made available to prospective employers.
Russia officially has more than two million alcoholics, although in reality the number could be much higher.
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