PepsiCo plans to start producing alcoholic cider, mead and a traditional sweet drink called sbiten, the company has told the Federal Service for Intellectual Property. PepsiCo plans to start producing alcoholic cider, mead and a traditional sweet drink called sbiten, the company...

The movement that gave us rallying cries like "for fair elections" and "Putin thief!" may have found a new slogan to add to their repertoire: "cigarettes and alcohol." The movement that gave us rallying cries like "for fair elections" and "Putin thief!" may have found a new slogan to add to its repertoire: "cigarettes and alcohol." Opposition figures including Just...

... acquaintance told me: "One of the things I find interesting about you is your language. You speak a kind of old-fashioned pre-revolutionary language that one rarely hears in this country nowadays. It sounds like 19th-century Russian, preserved in alcohol." Q: What were some of the surprising things you learned while working as an intelligence analyst? A: It was a wonderfully interesting profession. We did our best to find out what was really going on — what the Soviet authorities were...

Members of Russia's official Olympic delegation to London will find their summer a bit drier than usual. Members of Russia's official Olympic delegation to London will find their summer a bit drier than usual. Alcoholic drinks will be banned at any event organized by the Russian delegation in which  athletes or delegation officials participate, Kommersant reported, citing information from the minutes of a meeting led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, the...

... than watch any more of his beloved family members die. His enormous fear conquered his ability to live in reality. The most constant source of fear that is recounted in our classes is from being physically, sexually, verbally and emotionally abused by alcoholic parents or grandparents. Because the alcoholism rate is so high in Russia, it exacerbates the frequency and intensity of abuse. Alcohol is like gasoline poured upon smoldering coals and thus the intense flames of violence erupt and the ensuing...

Television humorist Mikhail Zhvanetsky criticized President Putin's inauguration motorcade on state television, saying it looked "disinfected" and "wiped with alcohol." Television humorist Mikhail Zhvanetsky criticized President Putin's inauguration motorcade on state television, saying it looked "disinfected" and "wiped with alcohol." In a rare but tempered show of public criticism...

... Transportation Agency, has called for the Duma to approve legislation enforcing the blacklists. The Federal Air Transportation Agency already keeps a blacklist of pilots who have been stripped of their licenses for flight-safety violations like drinking alcohol or taking drugs before flights, Neradko's aide Sergei Izvolsky said Wednesday. The list is posted on the agency's website and regularly used by airlines, he said by telephone. Airlines, however, are not allowed to maintain a database on passengers...

... transportation that will come into force in 2012, Gazeta.ru reported. The plan is to unfold in stages. Restaurants and bars, along with workplaces, are scheduled to become smoke-free by 2014. The new guidelines will also decrease the number of places alcohol is sold by 10 times. Authorities will limit the number of liquor licenses that will be sold, part of a strategy to improve health that will also boost fines for violations of rules governing the consumption of alcohol. Last November, the Health...

... the problem. "What do I do with these 5 million? It's impossible to jail all of them, and as soon as they know about their criminal liability, they will disappear and we won't even be able to identify them," he said. Bryun's figures for alcoholism were even more grim. He said 30 to 40 percent of the population abuses alcohol — a "colossal figure" concentrated mostly outside big cities like Moscow. He suggested that employers take a more constructive approach toward intoxicated...

Rustam Tariko's Russian Standard has completed the first phase of a deal to acquire an additional stake in Polish alcohol holding Central European Distribution Corporation, or CEDC, Interfax reported Thursday. Roust Trading acquired $30 million of new CEDC shares, the Polish company said. In addition, Russian Standard Bank bought $70 million worth of CEDC notes....

... restaurant and a museum of the 19th-century Yenisei province. The menu offers local period dishes, including grilled deer meet served with cabbage and apples and locally caught fish grilled or roasted and served with vegetables. A meal for one including alcohol costs 2,000 rubles ($66). The interior design of Shkvarok (102a Prospekt Mira; +7 391-265-13-04) is reminiscent of a mazanka, a traditional Ukrainian village house, and menu offers Ukrainian national dishes like borshch and vareniki, pastries...

... officials’ abuse of driving privileges. Anton Astakhov’s father, Pavel Astakhov, a well-known lawyer and an outspoken advocate for young people’s rights as Russia’s ombudsman for children, said he recommends that his clients avoid police alcohol tests and ask for independent testing instead.  “Not everything that is done immediately is always honest,” he told RIA-Novosti. But he said that if his son is guilty, he should be punished. The case comes on the heels of an incident...

... flirted with controversy for years. Suspicions have swirled that he used his chairmanship of the State Duma’s Culture Committee from 2003 to 2011 to promote his “Myths About Russia,” which includes titles such as “About Russian Alcoholism, Sloth and Cruelty” and “About Russian Slavery, Dirt and ‘Prison of the Nations.’” The series — which was heavily advertised on the city's billboards and had a print run of 350,000 copies — later became...

... couples. He said the protesters litter, break trees and trample the lawns. Lawns do look ragged, but reports from the scene didn't mention any broken trees or impediments for strollers. The protesters gather their litter and imposed a ban on consuming alcohol and throwing cigarette butts on the ground. Volunteers maintain order. The other Duma factions, the Communist Party, A Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party, said they would vote against the bill. "The most recent events in Moscow...

... will cancel the tax in a bid to spur technological upgrades. The measure will allow companies to save 50 billion rubles every year over 2013-15, Shatalov said. The tax, whose rate is 2.2 percent, is paid to regional coffers. Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol are also set to grow under the plan approved Wednesday. 175768 179742

... borders fleeing persecution, while all young Mormon men are sent on a two-year "mission." Half go abroad, where they must learn the language, and then work six days a week trying to convert skeptical foreigners to a faith that bans not only alcohol but coffee, too. As many Mormon businessmen have noted, this is excellent preparation for business — and especially international business. L. Todd Budge, the first foreign chief executive of a Japanese bank, was once a Mormon missionary...

... what he believes to be widespread Russophobia — both from foreigners and Russians. He is the author of a series of books on the most common "myths" about Russia — above all, a belief that Russians are historically inclined toward alcoholism, laziness, corruption and strong leaders. In the preface to each book, he explains that the series was not written for foreigners, most of whom will probably always cling to these deeply ingrained stereotypes, but for Russians who have read...

... what Navalny on Twitter called "an indefinite street party." In comments to those gathered that were recorded and posted on YouTube , Navalny told the people to call their friends to ask them to join the event and said there should be no alcohol and no tents because police would detain people who set up tents. Staff writer Howard Amos contributed to this report. 418973 170907 374873 179742

... about the Soviet system itself." These words belonged to a doctor who grew up during Josef Stalin's rule. When I first met her, she spoke only of her "happy childhood" and the fact that she was very fortunate that her parents were not alcoholic or abusive to her or her little brother. But over the years I have known her, she has become more aware of how difficult it was growing up in an angst-filled home. As she researched several generations of her family during an advanced class...

... between the crew's flights on Sept. 11 had been less than half the 12-hour minimum (the crew flew on Sept. 11, 12 and 13), one of many regulatory violations in the crew's work-rest schedule, according to the investigation report. The captain also had alcohol in his blood, the report said. Errors made by personnel cause about 80 percent of air crashes in Russia, including allowing pilots without the necessary experience to fly, said Yelena Glebova, head of transport and customs oversight at the Prosecutor...