RUSSIA - Russian MP asks govt to ban US sodas as counter-sanction measure

The head of Russia’s Party of Pensioners is urging sanctions against the Coca-Cola and PepsiCo claims the soda giants are major sponsors of anti-Russian politicians in US and that the move would boost domestic producers of soft drinks.

“In support of the president’s and the government’s actions regarding the countersanctions we suggest restricting imports of products made by the Coca-Cola and PepsiCo companies that are the main sponsors of respectively the Republican and Democratic parties of the United States, the active supporters of prolonged sanctions against the Russian Federation,” Igor Zotov wrote in a letter to the Russian prime minister, quoted by the Izvestia daily.

Zotov, an MP in the State Duma representing the Fair Russia Party, noted that according to the information received from open sources the US soda is extremely harmful for human health and therefore its imports are very damaging for the health of the Russian nation.

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INC News, 26/06/2015 - via RT