The St. Petersburg government and the direction of the city Metro have prepared a wide scale programme of Metro stations` modernization.

1 June is the Passenger’s Day in Russia. Today a celebration campaign due to the start of the summer transportations season will take place at all railways stations of the RF.

The Agency of Tourism of Yamal is developing special routes for tourists willing to observe the eclipse of the Sun which is expected to take place 1 August 2008.

Users of Google Maps service have noticed some updates: now it is possible to read the names of Russian roads in Cyrillic. However, users mark that the information on Russian objects is out-of-date.

Wolf’s Mane sanctuary has been created in the west of the Novosibirsk Region. Some time ago unique remains of more than 200 mammoths that died nearly 12 thousand years ago, were found there.

According to weather forecasters, Moscow is under a hurricane threat. A hurricane may take place if the current high temperatures in the Russian capital rapidly fall.

Hence now on Russian and foreign citizens coming to Sakhalin Island can travel around the territory of the island without getting a boundary pass.

The proposal of Aeroflot sent to JAT Airlines promises not to reduce the staff, to settle debts of the Serbian air company, and to renew the company’s transport park with new planes.

In the framework of developing tourism in the Krasnodar Region it is planned to create archaeological parks where every tourist can participate in diggings, and found exemplars will be exhibited in museums.

The idea of the service is as follows: within several seconds the mobile phone defines the customer’s location and offers information about the nearby sightseeing and places of interest of St. Petersburg in English and Russian.