Penalty half a million, 3 years of prison

Article for drunk driving becomes tougher. On May 25 State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the first reading adopted the bill toughening punishment for drink driving. Now within criminal liability (it comes for the "recidivists" who have got in a state of intoxication not for the first time) the driver can receive a penalty to 500 thousand rubles or up to 3 years of imprisonment. According to the current version of UK it is, respectively, 300 thousand rubles and 2 years. "MK" found out how inspectors of traffic police use toughening of punishment and what alternatives exist. On the one hand, a penalty rate, it is possible to tell, simply...