The Association of guides-interpreters, tour guides, and tourist managers claims there are facts of extorting money from foreign tourists by workers of Moscow police (militia) and asks the authorities to activate fight with these violations.

The company Russian Railways is considering a possibility of launching passenger rail communication Moscow-Paris, as the head of the passenger transportations of Russian Railways reports.

The air company Uralian Airlines is the first to create a “black list” of passengers. People with improper behaviour aboard plane may next time be refused to buy a ticket.

For the nearest two weeks Metro in Moscow will sound with voices of well-known Russian actors and actresses. Lyudmila Gurchenko will be the first one to “work” underground as an announcer.

Statistic shows that gender-type compartments are more popular with men rather than with women: 30% of male passengers prefer to travel in a pure male company.

Preparation works for creation of special economic zones of a tourist-recreational type has started at Baikal today, May 16.

Every Saturday the prefecture of the Central administrative district of the capital organizes free two-hour walking excursions “Golden Ring of Moscow”.

The cost of one hour Internet access with unlimited traffic will be 100 roubles (4USD approximately) with connection speed 54Mb per second.

Within a month Russian Railways and the government of St. Petersburg will coordinate the location of the terminal of the high-speed railway Moscow-St. Petersburg.

For the forthcoming tourist season the city Anapa has turned into a subtropical resort. Hundreds of palms have been planted in the city and exotic flowers have appeared in parks and squares.