The American Corporation Pepsico buys 66% of the shares of the largest Russian producer of drinks and dairy products "VIMM-Bill-Dann" for $ 3.8 billion, the Air Force reports citing the company's message. According to a member of the board of directors of the Russian company David Yakobashvili, the deal was discussed in the last three weeks, and its outcome will depend on the decision of the antimonopoly bodies.

This is my second column in a week, but such a curious game of nature has occurred that it cannot be described immediately. This is a story about St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Philology), Limbus Press Publishing House and a two-volume Literary Matrix. The two -volume was released in the Limbus and, as the annotation says: “Modern writers and poets reflect on Russian classics whose works are included in the school program in literature (grades 10-11).

In Russia, criminal liability for spam mailing can be introduced, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The corresponding draft concept of changes in the law in order to combat spam, which was at the disposal of the publication, was prepared by the Russian Association of Electronic Communications and State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. It is planned that the amendments will be made to the State Duma in the spring of 2011.

Izvestia newspaper publishes an article by Alexander Izmailov " Rubens on the giving way. Around the masterpiece of a brilliant artist, passions boil again " "The loud story of the seven years ago around Rubens of Tarquinius and Lucretia turned out to be a scandal.

Today in Zurich they chose the capital of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Russia, England, Portugal and Spain, as well as Belgium and Holland, claimed the right to hold the first tournament. Russia won. The event is sporting, political event. The argumentation of Russia was represented by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Shuvalov.

Former press secretary of the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov Sergey Tsoi became part of the reign of OJSC RusHydro. The company is known for owns the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, at which the largest technogenic accident in the history of modern Russia took place in August 2009. As a result of the accident, 75 people died.

An employee of the Famous Give Life charity fund, the head of his press service Elena Mulyarova was detained at Russian customs at the Vnukovo Airport with several packages of Cosmegen, Tepadina and Foscavir. These drugs were prescribed according to our patients from Moscow and Khabarovsk, the press service of the fund is informed . According to her, they want to keep the medicines at Elena Mulyarova at customs.

From time immemorial, the ideals of female beauty in West Africa differed from those in Europe. African canons prescribe that a woman’s body should be strong and full - this speaks both of the woman’s health and physical strength, and of her high social status. However, today, in the context of globalization, more and more African women travel abroad, watch European television, buy fashion magazines, and some of them emigrate and live permanently in the European cultural environment.

Every self-respecting Russian fan will spend today waiting for news from Zurich, where the host country of the 2018 World Cup will be chosen in the evening. Russia is also fighting for the right to host this tournament, which in order to win must withstand competition from England, as well as joint bids from Belgium/Holland and Spain/Portugal.

Russia does not object to the visual examination by the Japanese politicians of the Kuril Islands. Thus, the Deputy Director of the press service of the Foreign Ministry Alexei Sazonov, expressed by the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, had a desire to conduct a visual inspection of the Kuril Islands from its territory, ITAR-TASS reported today.

The FIFA Executive Committee on Thursday will be determined by the owners of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. For the right to hold the 2018 World Cup, the Russian application is also claimed, which will have to withstand competition from England, as well as joint applications of Belgium/Holland and Spain/Portugal, to win. Currently, the Russian application is presented in Zurich. In addition, the owners of the World Cup-2022 will be selected.

Russia is in no hurry to follow the recommendations of the economic court in the lawsuit of Belarus on the abolition of oil duties. This was announced today by reporters in the House of Representatives of the Minister of Justice of the Republic Viktor Golovanov, BelTA reports.

Dmitry Medvedev prevents the OSCE to update the charter, writes the newspaper Vedomosti . The Russian president, at the Summit in Astana, noted that the OSCE loses its potential and needs modernization. In order to breathe a new life into the principles of Helsinki, formulated 35 years ago, Medvedev proposed an update to the charter. In his opinion, this will help at least streamline the work of the organization’s structures.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev and his envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov in two weeks to find officials who allowed the activities of the criminal group in the village of Kushchevskaya, ITAR-TASS reports.

Yesterday, Interpol put on the international wanted list Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who is looking for the Swedish prosecutor's office. Officially - on charges of rape and actions of a sexual harater. Unofficially - almost everyone admits that the documents that are laid out on the WikiLeaks website affect too many of this world. Moreover, in this case, this expression is not a metaphor at all.