The Moscow mayor’s office seeks to keep an eye not just on its native citizens, but also foreign tourists. The city authorities have shown an interest in creating a surveillance system to track the movement of tourists around the Russian capital using data from mobile phone operators.

According…

Domestic tourism in Russia may resume in July, but the country’s resorts will have to reduce prices by 20-40% in order to attract visitors after the pandemic, the CEO of tour operator Intourist Victor Topolkaraev has said.

“If the situation with coronavirus will go on a positive scenario,…

The Belarusian Railway has temporarily canceled train connections to Moscow and St. Petersburg from April 5 due to the closure of the Russian border due to the situation with the coronavirus.

Since March 30, the Russian government has limited traffic through road, rail, pedestrian, river…

The ban does not apply on repatriation, freight, postal, sanitary and humanitarian transportation.

The decline of international flights from Russia began gradually from February 1. The restrictions were applied in several stages: firstly, were limited the flights to China, South Korea and…

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin: from March 28 all health resorts and public catering to suspend operation

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered to suspend accommodation in sanatoriums, resorts, as well as to stop the operation of public catering services. 

The…

Russia further restricted transport access on Sunday, banning a large amount of flights to and from foreign destinations. The move largely affects routes to secondary cities and holiday resorts, with most capital cities exempt.

The exceptions are regular routes connecting the Russian capital…

1.    Moscow is in high alert regime 
To prevent the spread of coronavirus in Moscow, major of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin introduced a high-alert mode for urban services.
2.    Residents who returned from abroad are quarantined
All Moscow residents…

The Russian government has announced that the country is restricting entry of foreigners and non-citizens starting from 18 March until 1 May amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

These restrictions won't apply to truck drivers, diplomats and permanent residents, the cabinet said. 

Russia has imposed limitations on issuing visas for Iranian nationals, because of the coronavirus outbreak, country’s Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced on Wednesday.

Starting from Feb. 28, only humanitarian and business types visas will be allowed for Iranians, Golikova said…

From January to December 2019, foreigners made 32,9 million visits to Russia. This is about the same as in 2018 - an increase is 0,98%. However, the number of foreigners visiting Russia with tourist purposes increased by 20,5% over the year and amounted up to 5,1 million people.

Almost all…

Tourist arrivals to Russia have surged by 20,5% in 2019, official figures cited by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

More than five million tourists visited Russia in January-December 2019, according to ATOR’s breakdown of Federal Security Service (FSB) border service data,…

The fallout from the coronavirus has left the resort's hotels largely empty. Winter is high season for tourism around Lake Baikal in Siberia, but the coronavirus outbreak has curtailed its main source of income - Chinese holidaymakers.

They account for more than two-thirds of foreign tourists…

Tourists around the world have frequently cited difficulties with obtaining visas as a barrier to visiting Russia.

Citizens of 53 countries will be able to apply for simplified, low-cost electronic visas to visit Russia starting next year, a senior official has said in an interview.

The…

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air plans to launch new flights from St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport in 2020, airline CEO Joseph Varadi told reporters.

"We are launching flights from June 1, 2020 to Bratislava, June 3 - to Vilnius, July 1 - to Bucharest, July 2 - to Sofia," he said.

It…

Russian tour operators have put group tours from China on hold as the country is fighting the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Russian Union of Travel Industry said in a statement, adding that Monday, January 27, has become the last day Russia accepted Chinese tourist groups.

“The Chinese…

The number of requests of foreign tourists to travel to Russia for the New Year's holidays increased by 31% in 2019, a study of the tourist metasearch Momondo showed.

Service experts analyzed the search data for economy class airline tickets to Russian cities for dates from December 26 to…

The Russian capital, which last year was the top-hashtagged city on Instagram, has been named the world’s fifth-best metropolis in a ranking of 100 major cities by Resonance Consultancy.

“Intriguing and increasingly hungry for global attention, Russia’s beguiling capital is a cultural gold…

Russia’s Far East has enormous potential – tourism experts, investors, and representatives of the authorities all agreed at the recently held Eastern Russia Tourism Week in Sakhalin, according to East Russia.

The region shows big promise and tour agents are eager to offer new itineraries,…

Apart from Moscow, the category featured such cities as London, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Sidney, Rio de Janeiro, and others. The awards ceremony took place in the city of Muscat, Oman, on November, 28. “World Travel Awards is a quality mark, and it means that Moscow is consolidating…