Foreign football fans will be able to attend UEFA Champions League Final in Moscow on May 21, 2008, going through a simplified process of getting a Russian visa. In order to get a visa to Russia, fans will only need a passport, game ticket, and a visa application form.

Representative of Strabag (Austria-based construction group) marketing & PR department Nicole Ziegler has reported that the company will rebuild International Airport Adler in Sochi, the capital of the Winter Olympic Games 2014.

According to the Moscow government, there are enough hotel rooms to accommodate 40.000 football fans that are expected to come to the city for UEFA Champions League Final on May 21, 2008.

The 6th World Festival of Tea and Coffee is to take place in the former royal estate Kolomenskoye in Moscow April 29 – May 5. The festival has been held annually since 2003 and attracts more and more guests every year.

On April 29 and May 5, during the trainings for May 9 Victory Parade, strategic bomber jets of the Air Force of Russia will twice fly above Moscow, as head of the long-haul aviation headquarters Anatoly Zhikharev reports.

It is planned to set web cameras in the most beautiful but hard-to-reach sites of the Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka to make them available for seeing on the Internet.

The European Union is ready for constructive interaction with Russia over the issues linked with the difficulties the RF citizens encounter when getting visas.

On Thursday The Federal Agency of Air Transport of Russia and the EU signed an agreement on withdrawal of the restrictions on flights to the European Union that were earlier put on aircraft of 13 Russian air companies.

In the morning of April 23 a plane of S7 Airlines that was flying from Novosibirsk (Russia) to Sanya (China) carried out unscheduled landing at Beijing airport. The crew of the Airbus A310 decided to land the plane due to one of the passengers had felt sick.

One of the Russian groups of companies has won an architectural-investment contest and obtained a right to reconstruct Aurora cinema in Krasnodar. Along with the reconstruction the winner company will bring to life a unique architectural project the concept of which is based on the book “My Small Paris”.