Sending space tourists to the International Space Station using Russian spaceships may become problematic after 2009, according to the head of the Russian Space Agency (RSA) of the RF Anatoly Perminov.

On December 29 the German air company Blue Wings starts flying from Dusseldorf to Moscow. The airline will carry out flights daily excluding Wednesday and Friday on Airbus A320

Flight tests of the Russian short-haul aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100 have been postponed till 2008. Earlier it had been announced that the first flight of the liner was expected to take place at the end of 2007.

A new large ski resort will appear in Switzerland in the nearest years. It will be situated at a height of 1450 metres in the Alps. The project has been estimated at $US300 million.

On the last day of the current year the Russian national air carrier Aeroflot stops usage of TU-134 planes and intends to replace the “veterans” of the Russian civil aviation with Airbus-320, according to the PR department of the air company.

In half a year in European cities it may become possible to see billboards calling tourists to visit St. Petersburg. Russian-German branding agency “Damm und Lindlar” starts developing a new brand for the northern capital of Russia.

Travellers to Sochi are now offered a new tourist route: through a bus window they can see all places linked with preparation to the Winter Olympics of 2014 – hotels where members of the Olympic Committee stayed at and the building sites of the sports objects.

Festival of ice sculptures “City of the Future” is opening in Yekaterinburg. 1.500 cubic metres of ice will be used for creation of mini copies of the objects that are planned to be built in the capital of the Urals in the nearest years.

The Independent has presented a list of the world’s top capitals that is based on comparison of 60 cities of the world.

Yesterday a number of customers informed the Russian air company S7 Airlines (also known as air company Siberia) that the company’s website was infected with a virus aimed at stealing data from the customers` payment cards.