Tastes of Moscow car thieves have changed a lot within the recent years: they now mainly prefer “working” with foreign cars. While in 2006 the most frequently stolen car in Moscow was Volkswagen Passat, in 2007 the thieves have switched to Porsche Cayenne.

Seven people were killed and tens were injured in a passenger bus explosion that occurred in the Russian city of Togliatti this morning. Experts of the Federal Security Service of Russia preliminarily conclude that the bus was blown up with an explosive device equal to 300 gr-1 kilo in TNT and consider it a terrorist act.

The authorities of the near-border Kharkov Region (Ukraine) have called the project of building an international airport at the Russia-Ukraine border “hardly affordable” and “unlikely”.

The Russian air company Aeroflot intends to make an attempt to enter the European market via purchasing the Czech state air carrier Czech Airlines and taking part in privatization of Prague International Airport.

A chain of Chinese restaurants in Moscow that served homeless dogs` meat to the customers as mutton has been closed, as the Economic Crime Department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the capital reports.

The largest Finnish tour operator Aurinkomatkat-Suntours (a sub-company of the air carrier Finnair Oyj) is purchasing Calypso - a leading travel agency of St. Petersburg that specialises on individual VIP travellers.

As the transport server of Moscow reports, it is planned to launch production of double-decker trains in Russia in 2011 in accordance with the Strategy of railway transport development till 2030.

In the framework of the travel market exhibition UrgaTour-2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk, the regional Chess Federation organizes “Chess Club” salon – presentation of the World Chess Olympiad that will take place in the Russian city of Ugra in 2010.

MS-21 middle-haul passenger jet is hoped to replace the old TU-154 planes and to excel Sukhoi Superjet in technical characteristics. Most likely the new aircraft will be produced at the aviation construction plant in the Russian city of Irkutsk.

The working governmental group of the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia is considering an offer made by the leading metro constructing Chinese companies Guangzhou Metro and Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd that want to construct metro in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.