has teamed up with russia's immuno will interest travel agency thomas cook will in vast up to forty five million dollars to meet russian demand for beach and family holidays with a person. who has more players we cannot go into those jobs the firms. that we are crude to. circuit because we're going to be this russia so clearly we want the global war on them but. it's great is a bad thing and more than rising numbers of holidaymakers analysts believe as disposable incomes rise russians will be looking for more destinations and new services. business r.t. in two thousand and ten merger and acquisition deals were among the top market drivers in the consumer goods sector was ahead of the trend u.s. based drinks giant pepsi co signed a deal to buy sixty six percent stake in russia's leading dairy produce the ball down the three point eight billion.

drug but we have seen big deals involving pepsico in thomas cook for example coming to russia this year is this a sign that efforts to promote a better investment climate all working. did the fact that the russian government is really investing effort and time at least presenting the russian business environment improving at least going out and trying to attract investors this is already a positive step and the fact that these big companies are getting involved is also an encouraging sign but it has to be said that the the environment in this business environment in russia is changing in the sense that as long as the companies that come into russia knew the rules of game they knew that. for big deals for big contracts they have to have the government blessing some areas of strategic importance.

travel specialist thomas cook entering the tourism market discuss these renewed interest in russia i'm now joined in the studio by later to chew over from morgan stanley in russia thank you very much for joining us now a few years ago it was all talk about state corporations and a fortress economy is it fair to say that russia is opening up it is very fair to say there is definitely an intention both sides to open rush up to open the economy and the rights were mentioned the recent him and the deals are clear evidence of this and there is more interest coming over the new privatization program but as government the government is launching in two thousand and eleven two thousand and thirteen will give another chance for that. is the responsibility for integrating russia and its economy to the outside world do you think that is the government or investors it really is both it's a two way road government is very important in this economy so and probably will be and the task of the government is really to create the conditions which will make russia attractive for international and domesti

. >> "capitol hill cooks" is the name of the book, linda bauer is the author from the white house. congress and all of the past presidents. >> coming up, thomas allen presents a history of torrey americans during the american revolution. the author recounts the torrey strongholds of new york and philadelphia, the civil war that took place among the american populace and the migration of 80,000 tories most of whom left for canada. thomas allen presents his book at the library of congress this in washington d.c. it's 40 minutes. >> i'm not supposed to have to plug the library of congress, but it's inevitable. a few years ago i got a call from an historian at the cia whom i had met when i'd been working on the george washington book about intelligence in the revolutionary war. and he says the library of congress is something you might be interested in, call this number. and i thought, wow. maybe the cia really does that -- [laughter] people who, you know, just like in the seven cays of the con -- days of the condor, there's people reading books all the time. so, well, it wasn't quite that. what had happened was the library had got a manuscript t