Routes connecting St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region with four Finnish cities will open in 2021, the press service of the Leningrad Region government reports.

The routes will be arranged within the framework of the project - "Tourist Corridor" St. Petersburg – Saimaa. They will link…

Swiss Airlines resumed flights from Russia on Saturday, Domodedovo airport said in its official telegram channel.

“Domodedovo has served the first regular flight of Swiss Airlines after the resumption of flights between Russia and Switzerland. Flight LX 1327 took off today from Domodedovo…

Leading Russian airlines resumed flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to popular tourist destinations in Antalya, Bodrum and Dalaman, in Turkey, on August 10 as part of the phased restoration of international air traffic. Passenger traffic on these routes totaled 9 000 people during the…

From September 1, air traffic to the most of the CIS countries may be resumed, and the list of Russian airports from which international flights will be permitted should be expanded.

This information was announced in ATOR (Association of Tour Operators of Russia). According to preliminary…

Aeroflot Airlines will resume flights to Geneva, Switzerland, from August 15. Earlier, the Russian government made a decision on the possibility of resuming flights with the country.

“Flights will be operated from August 15 under a reduced program (one flight per week on Saturdays). As international…

Russians should not wait the opening of the border with Finland at least until September 8th. The northern country has once again extended travel restrictions, explaining this by an increase of the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the world. Previously, restrictive measures were announced before…

Russian authorities could resume a lot of international flights since Aug. 11. Where it’s currently possible to travel to and from Russia:

These places are open to Russian citizens with a mandatory two-week quarantine upon arrival:

— Britain

These…

By early August, several visa centers in Russia resumed their work. However, visa services are available only for limited categories of persons.

Bulgaria Austria, Germany, Spain, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia:

Visa centers remain closed until further…

From August 1, Austria will lift the ban on regular flights from 18 foreign countries, including Russia. This follows from a new notice for pilots (NOTAM), in which the Republic notified airlines on changes of restrictions of flights to the country.

At the same time, the Austrian Ministry…

The European Union will remain closed to Russian citizens until at least mid-August.

After three months of being closed to nonessential travel, the EU reopened its borders on July 1 to visitors from countries that were considered to have controlled their coronavirus outbreaks. The EU is…

Finland is closed for Russians for another month

The Finnish authorities have decided to close the border with Russia until August 25. The reason is the situation with COVID-19, the Border Guard said.

So, as the Finnish authorities said, for opening the border it is necessary that…

Russia plans to restart international flights to Britain, Turkey and Tanzania on August 1 more than four months after closing its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Russia grounded nearly all international flights in late March to slow the coronavirus outbreak, allowing only special…

Since July 20, the French visa centers in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov and Khabarovsk have resumed their work. But tourists can’t get visas yet.

From July 6, the visa…

Russia’s Ministry for Development of the Far East and Arctic will analyze points of tourist attraction in the Arctic and will decide before the yearend how to organize infrastructures there, Deputy Minister Alexander Krutikov said.

According to the ministry, by 2035, up to 3 million people…

The Russian airline Aeroflot is planning to launch flights between Tallinn and Moscow in August, but Tallinn Airport and the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications said that the opening of routes nevertheless depends on the epidemiological situation in Russia and the number of new…

The Russian tourism industry has lost 187 billion Euros over the past six months due to coronavirus, and it will take at least a year and a half to restore the industry to pre-crisis levels, president of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Andrei Ignatiev said, citing data from the Federal Tourism…

Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Agency for Health and Consumer Rights) has compiled a list of countries that will be opened for Russian tourists at the first stage of the restoration of international air traffic.

It is noted that the list includes 13 countries of the world: the United Kingdom,…

Borders have not yet been opened, but foreign flights are gradually beginning to “penetrate” in the schedule of major Russian carriers. S7 Airlines has included Spain (Alicante) and France (Nice) in its schedule. According to the information on the carrier’s website, tickets to Spain on July 10 and…

On Wednesday, July 8, the Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko said that Russia is ready for mutual work on opening borders with other countries.

“Russia is not interested in introducing any restrictions and closing the borders ... This is a matter of bilateral relations and the…

As Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, State Secretary Evgeny Ivanov said, citizens of 113 countries will be able to enter the Russian Federation with an electronic visa from January 2021.

“We expect that from January 2021, citizens of 113 states will be able to enter Russia…