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3.07.2009

The Aeroflot-Don air-company has canceled the flights from Rostov-on-Don to Tel-Aviv because of the ban of the Israel authorities from the south of Russia to Israel. In the circumstances concerned the mentioned air-company will nevertheless return the Russians from Israel and the Israel citizens homeward.


2.07.2009

The technology of buying plane tickets on-line is not yet wide-spread in Russia, but the Aeroflot air-company offers its clients this way of buying tickets for all the flights except ones to India and USA. It lets to save a lot of time, because of avoiding standing in queue. Moreover, the electronic tickets are cheaper as the traditional ones.


2.07.2009

The air-company S7 or Siberia opens direct services from Irkutsk to Beijing and Tashkent. S7 is the only one company, providing such services, which let to save a lot of time on the routes, which are very popular in the region. For example, the flight to the capital of Uzbekistan takes 4 hours.


2.07.2009

The state Duma has prepared the petition with a request to the Russian Government to take steps for providing safety of the Russian tourists abroad. The authors of the document are vice-speaker of the state Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the floor leader of the liberal democrats Igor Lebedev and the deputy of the same party Sergey Ivanov.


30.06.2009

The passenger-cargo vessel DBS Cruise begins to cruise tying three regions and countries on the June, 6. The vessel has come to the Japanese port of Sakaiminato where the opening ceremony devoted to the new line, organized by the administration of the Japanese prefecture of Tottori, takes place tomorrow, on the July, 1.


26.06.2009

The extreme traveler from Omsk, Viktor Gonoshilov, is sailing down the river of Irtysh. The journey is going on the second month and seems to be completed soon.The traveler has decided to simulate the way made by the expedition of Ivan Buchholz, the traveler of the 18th century who founded the fortress of Omsk.


25.06.2009

The two main Moscow transporters, Moscow Metropolitan and Moscow City Transport can merge into a government owned corporation with a charter capital of 50 billion dollars. Vasily Kichedzhi, the chief of Moscow Department of Transport has informed the journalists of the possible merging this Thursday.


19.06.2009

Three new tourists’ routes suggested under the international Economic Forum going on in Novgorod the Great. According to the source, it was Yury Yakovets, the professor of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation who suggested to revive ancient trading routes like the tourists’ ones.


11.06.2009

The Russians are worrying about the economical crisis less than at the beginning of the year. Their plans for summer holidays are almost the same like last summer. Most people keep planning to travel somewhere


9.06.2009

15-16 thousand people sink in Russia annually. It is too much in comparison with other countries. A great part of them are victims of spring rafting, when the rivers become deep and rapid


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