Coca-Cola Co. is getting involved in the race for Russian taste. Over the weekend they applied to the antimonopoly agency to buy a 75% stake in juice company Nidan Soki. The deal is showing its rivals Pepsi that the race is on. Thousands of protesters headed to Red Square over the weekend. They were protesting falling living standards under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The police broke up the rally many people were calling “the day of anger.” Other areas held rallies as well. At least 1,500 people turned out in the Pacific port of Vladivostok, around 1,000 rallied in Saint Petersburg and hundreds gathered in several other cities.
Prime Minister Putin announced last Thursday that Russia would help Iran launch its first nuclear power plant. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that this was a certain blow to increase financial pressure on Tehran. Mr. Putin’s announcement surprisingly came as Clinton was visiting Moscow. Secretary Clinton took the announcement as a diplomatic slap in the face. "We think it would be premature to go forward with any project at this time, because we want to send an unequivocal message to the Iranians," Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following Mr. Putin's comments. “We have consistently said that Iran is entitled to civil nuclear power," Mrs. Clinton said at the news conference. "It is a nuclear-weapons program that it is not entitled to."
On a lighter note, a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut landed safely in a Russian space capsule on Thursday. The duo was ferrying home from an international space station. The three and half-hour ride back to earth went smoothly. Both men were in good physical condition upon arrival in Kazakhstan.
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