Overview
- Ozon said items containing alcohol will be unavailable to users under 18 and that it will add extra checks to prevent minor purchases.
- Russia’s current regulations do not classify alcohol‑filled sweets as alcoholic beverages, allowing distance sales to continue.
- Senator Igor Murog proposed mandatory labels indicating alcohol content and a ban on selling such confections to minors on online platforms.
- Murog urged obliging marketplaces to verify buyers’ ages and suggested adapting mechanisms used for energy drinks and cigarettes rather than full equivalence to alcohol.
- The moves follow reports that schoolchildren were mass‑ordering novelty ‘shot’ candies and chocolate ‘bottles’ on marketplaces, highlighted by the Baza channel.