Tariffs for air navigational service for foreign air companies` planes in the Russian air space will increase 9% this year.

It has been decided to pave a memorial alley to the grave of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin at the Novodevicy cemetery, as the cemetery workers report.

Following the example of Europe, Russia is about to restrict the amount of liquids and gels passengers may take on board planes. It is planned that the new restrictions will spread on both international and domestic flights.

Russian Railways together with the Finnish company Transtech are considering the possibility of creation of a joint enterprise for production of double-level passenger carriages.

77 Moscow fountains will simultaneously resume functioning on the Poklonnaya Hill (Victory Park), in Manezhnaya Square, Gorky Park, and the square near the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow at 5pm, April 27.

April 26 – May 10 Russian Railways are planning to introduce 350 additional trains due to the public holidays in May. The majority of additional trains are to course on the route Moscow-St. Petersburg.

200 public telephones with Wi-Fi access will be set in Moscow in the nearest future; first of all they will appear at railway stations, in hotel complexes, and airports.

The company Aeroflot is planning to start increasing the frequency of flights to the United States and to start transportations in new directions within that country.

The sum of compensations paid to air catastrophes` victims by airlines will be increased 20 times. The maximum payment will reach 2 million roubles (now it is only 100 thousand roubles).

April 24 Sheremetyevo airport, specializing on regular flights, introduces a charter programme for repeat customers, as the press-service of the airport reports.