A deputy of the fraction United Russia Vitaly Milonov sent to the head of the Federal Tourism Agency Oleg Safonov a proposal to develop a code of behavior of Russian tourists abroad, according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia. Rules should be developed separately for each popular tourism destination, the deputy said. He noted that the Russians, being on holiday abroad, are often not familiar with the traditions of the country and do not know about established norms of behavior. As a result, they often find themselves in absurd, or even dangerous situations.

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia's most prestigious educational institution for young people with international interests, the same time the University of the Russian Foreign Ministry) and online travel service Anywayanyday signed an agreement on global cooperation, according to the press department of the company. "The agreement between the university and the company assumes both studies and internships for students. The initiator of the cooperation of the University became the Faculty of Applied Economics and Commerce," the statement says.

From July 9, insurance company Soglasie starts paying tourists of tour operator Travelsystem. Financial guarantee of tour operator will be enough for 80% of the required payment, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina commented to Interfax. The company Soglasie insured financial responsibility of tour operator Travelsystem (legal entity LLC NeoLayn Tour).

The Russian airports' VIP-passengers will now be standing in the general queue at passport control and pre-flight inspection, according to the newspaper Kommersant with reference to the decision of the Federal Security Service (FSB). According to the publication, FSB insists at the closing of these offices, alleging the illegality of such services.

Because of repair works at the Moscow railway, the timetable of Aeroexpress to/from Domodedovo airport is changed, the press department of Aeroexpress informed. The changes will affect the following dates in July: the nights from 17 to 18; from 18 to 19; from 24 to 25; and from 25 to 26, the report said. So, in this period, the trains from Paveletsky railway station to Domodedovo airport at 22:30; 23:00 23:30; 00:00; 00:30 are cancelled. The trains from Domodedovo airport to Paveletsky railway station at 23:00; 23:30; 00:00; 6:00 are cancelled.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines can combine their airline subsidiaries under a single brand, as the head of Aeroflot Vitaly Saveliev said at the shareholders meeting on Monday. "We have such a strategy: the premium segment remains for the Aeroflot. Meanwhile, we will increase the amount of low-cost transportation and reduce the volume of the middle part.

The EU hopes under certain conditions to return to a dialogue with the Russian Federation on the introduction of visa-free regime, the head of the EU Delegation in Russia Vygaudas Usackas said on Wednesday. These negotiations (on the visa-free regime with the Russian Federation) stopped for obvious reasons, but we hope that, under certain conditions, we will continue them," he said at a briefing in Moscow, answering the question of "Interfax".

On June 22, 2015 the presentation of the joint project of the Amur Tiger Center and Transaero Airlines was held at Moscow Vnukovo airport. The project is aimed at drawing attention to the issues of environmental protection and conservation of rare and endangered species.Within the project called "Tiger flight", the Transaero’s Boeing 747-400 aircraft (accommodating 447 passengers) has acquired some features of a tiger.

Russian Tourism Agency and Aerofuels group of companies signed an agreement to provide discounts on fuel for Russian air carriers flying within the country, the Federal Tourism Agency website said on Friday. Memorandum of cooperation was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Some foreign airlines are about to leave the Russian market under the current conditions of reduction in demand for international transportation, and some airlines reduce the flight programs, the deputy head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Valery Okulov said on transportation forum in Novosibirsk on Wednesday.

Audit commission of Tourpomosch (association of tour operators for outbound tourism) failed to establish the exact number of tourists, evacuated from abroad in 2014 after the bankrupts of tour operators , the chairman of the association Natalya Kitova said at a general meeting of the association committee.

Airport of Lipetsk, on Friday opened international flights, the head of administration of the Lipetsk region, Oleg Korolev, said. The first flight was operated to Italy on the route Lipetsk - Milan - Lipetsk.

Vladivostok Airport in the summer can start receiving the largest passenger aircraft in the world A380, which is planned to be operated on the route Moscow - Vladivostok by Transaero airline, as the press department of the Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky reported. Airbus A380 is the largest aircraft of Airbus SAS Group and the largest passenger aircraft in the world.

The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Ministry of Finance to maintain a zero rate of VAT on domestic air transportation of passengers to/from the Crimea and Sevastopol, the site of the Russian government says. "Russian Ministry of Finance has to preserve tax rate of 0% for value added tax in the implementation of services for domestic air transport of passengers and luggage, if the point of departure or arrival is situated in the territory of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol," the order of the Prime Minister said.

In January-March 2015, passenger traffic on international charter flights from Moscow's airports decreased by half compared with the same period last year, from 1.2 million passengers to 652.4 thousand, the statement on the website of the Russian Aviation Ministry says. As press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported, most airlines cooperating with leading tour operators note significant reduction of passenger traffic.

At the beginning of May, the list of members of the association of outgoing Russian tour operators Tourpomosch has just 861 company, while last year at this same time, members of the association were more than two thousand travel companies, which is almost 2.5 times higher. Accordingly, the compensation fund reduced. Now it has in amount about 180 million rubles, of which almost 90 million were on deposit from the previous year.

During May holidays, Moscow airports have increased the number of passengers compared to the same period of the last year by 4.1%, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency website. According to the report, from May 1 till May 4, airports of Moscow served 845.3 thousand passengers against 811.9 thousand people a year earlier.

Mobile Telesystems (MTS), one of the three biggest mobile operators in Russia, has started selling tickets for trains and planes in its own retail stores. Online retailer Ozon, about 11% of which belongs to MTS, became the partner of MTS in this project. Customers can buy tickets at retail stores of MTS without an extra charge, the representative of MTS Dmitry Solodovnikov said.

From May 1, Russian tourists will again pay for a visa to Egypt, but it will not have a noticeable effect on the tourist flow, as the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported. "The Ministry of Tourism of Egypt informed in advance that Russians do nit pay the visa fee only until 30-th of April.

Specialized tour operator who will organize tours within Russia for disabled travelers, is established with the support of the Federal Tourism Agency, the Head of the Federal Tourism Agency Oleg Safonov said. Tour operator Dostypny Tour (Affordable Tour), whose founder is the non-profit organization International Academy of Accessibility and Universal Design", has already been included in the Federal Registry of Tour Operators.

Inflation in Russia upon the results of 2015 might be 6.7% given the current rates of the weekly price growth, Russia’s Central Bank President Elvira Nabiullina told reporters on Thursday. "We alongside others are looking at the annualised inflation that is the inflation expected during the whole year if each week the inflation remained at the level of the current week [0.1% - eds. TASS]. Now the inflation stands at 6.7%," Nabiullina said adding that In January the inflation climbed to 40% and in March - to 15%.

As many as 900,000 Russians visited Italy in 2014 to spend one billion US dollars there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday after talks with visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Putin noted that cross years of tourism had been a success in both countries.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the fall of Russia's GDP in 2015 to 3.8%, the fund said in a new analytical forecast report on Tuesday. Earlier, the IMF predicted that Russia's GDP this year will fall by 3%. According to the new forecast of the fund, in 2016 the economic downturn in Russia will be 1.1%, while earlier the forecast was at 1%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was named the winner of US magazine Time 100 readers’ poll for this year’s most influential people. The South Korean girl-group 2NE1 known as CL came second in the ranking with 6.9% of the votes. US President Barack Obama was ranked 11th. According to Time magazine, more than 57% of the votes were cast in the United States, 5.54% in Canada and another 4.55% in the United Kingdom. 

The executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators (ATOR) of Russia Maya Lomidze reported about that to TASS. Low-cost airline of Aeroflot, Pobeda Airline, organizes regular flights to Sochi, which reduces cost of tour packages to Sochi. Tour operators also actively work on that destination without any interferer from city government. Taking into account such activity, we cannot exclude the possibility of dumping prices from tour operators”, Lomidze said.