Law on prohibiting sale of alcoholic beverages to minors 2010-12-29 20:10:00 Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to Article 16 of the Federal Law On State Regulation of Production and Circulation of Ethanol, Alcoholic Beverages and Alcohol-Containing Products. The amendment prohibits any retail sale of alcoholic beverages to minors and requires that in case a salesperson has doubts about a customer’s age such customer must be requested to produce an ID, including an identification document of a foreign national or a stateless person staying in the Russian Federation.