... to Russia, the report said. The agency appealed to the UN World Tourism Organization to help assist the tourists get home, RIA-Novosti reported. Lanta-Tur, which sold foreign tours to about 100,000 Russians last year, was working with more than 8,000 travelers when it went bankrupt, Interfax said. (MT)

Investigators have opened a large-scale criminal fraud case against the management of one of Russia's largest tour operators, which left more than 3,500 clients stranded in Russia and abroad when it went bankrupt over the weekend. Investigators have opened a large-scale criminal fraud case against the management of one of Russia's largest tour operators, which left more than 3,500 clients stranded in Russia and abroad when it went bankrupt over the weekend. The...

... that has accused the airline of bribery and extortion. Aeroflot said it will file a countersuit for slander and defamation against a U.S. tour company that has accused the airline of bribery and extortion. Los Angeles-based Riviera Travel & Tours filed a suit for financial and repetitional damages amounting to $3.4 million against the Russian airline and two of its U.S. representatives, Andrei Novokshonov and Alexei Alexandrov, on Feb. 2, Vedomosti reported Thursday. "It is...

The FBI arrested a refugee from Uzbekistan at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on charges that he planned to travel overseas to fight for a terrorist group and give up his life if necessary. AURORA, Colorado — The FBI arrested a refugee from Uzbekistan at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on charges that he planned to travel overseas...

Europe's outgoing human rights chief has some advice for the Latvian national who will succeed him: travel to Russia often to win the respect of local officials and press them hard to fulfill their promises. Europe's outgoing human rights chief has some advice for the Latvian national who will succeed him: travel to Russia...

Linda Bortoletto spent two months with eight reindeer herders, two cooks, and 2,000 reindeer in a stunning landscape ringed by rivers and mountains. There are a fair number of people who have traveled to Kamchatka or Alaska. There are few who have reached the Aleutian Islands, and fewer still who have passed months with nomadic reindeer herders or biked 1,200 kilometers from Anchorage to Haines, but in one season last year, Linda Bortoletto...

... said Rafael Echevarne, director of economics and development programs at the World Airport Council, told reporters Wednesday. The finding is a remarkable turnaround for the airport, which just a few years ago was universally dreaded by international travelers heading in and out of Moscow. Its dismal international terminal, Sheremetyevo 2 — since renamed Terminal F — was state-of-the-art when built for the 1980 Olympics, but by the mid-2000s was a byword for discomfort and neglect. The...

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Passengers on the Moscow metro will soon be able to check the news, plot twitter revolutions and download e-mails as they travel, if the latest plans from City Hall come to fruition. Passengers on the Moscow metro will soon be able to check the news, plot Twitter revolutions and download e-mails as they travel, if the latest plans from City Hall come to...

... Thursday that it would invest an additional 7 billion yen ($90 million) at its St. Petersburg factory to add stamping and resin-molding processes to the production of its Camry sedan in 2014. (Reuters) VTB said Wednesday that it would lend bankrupt travel firm Lanta-Tur Voyage $7 million at a 12 percent interest rate, Vedomosti reported Thursday. (Reuters)

... over Wallenberg's remains — circumstances which have prompted researchers to try to continue to try to tap Russian authorities for more information. As Sweden's envoy in Budapest from July 1944, Wallenberg saved 20,000 Jews by giving them Swedish travel documents or moving them to safe houses, and he dissuaded German officers from massacring the 70,000 inhabitants of the city's ghetto. Sweden marks the 100th anniversary of his birth this year with a series of events, including a traveling exhibition...

... guests including foreigners during the New Year's holidays — about 10 percent more than a year ago, Sergei Shpilko, head of City Hall's tourism and hotel industry committee, said earlier this month. Growing demand among both domestic and foreign travelers resulted in the city outdoing European capitals like Paris and London by the size of hotel rates in November, according to a survey by hotel booking service Hotel.info. The Germany-based company ranked Moscow No. 1 earlier this month on its...

... a travesty. Western anger at Moscow's decision to block a UN resolution on Syria has approached hysteria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it a travesty. Lavrov plans to travel to Damascus along with Russia's foreign intelligence chief on Tuesday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who faces pressure from the West, Arab states and opponents at home to step down. Defending Moscow's decision to veto a Western-Arab...

... Russians that has been exploited by unscrupulous labor brokers and organized criminals in the sex industry. The changes were proposed in a Jan. 18 State Department memo that came after an investigation uncovered widespread abuses in the J-1 Summer Work Travel program, or SWT, which annually allows more than 100,000 foreign college students to work in the United States for up to four months. "The reforms we are undertaking will significantly reduce the opportunities for wrongdoing and catch it much...

A failed probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars but stuck in Earth’s orbit came crashing down in the Pacific Ocean late Sunday, RIA-Novosti reported. Up until the last moments it was unclear where the unmanned, 14-ton Fobos-Grunt would fall. So the crash of the probe...

... Olympics — just over six months away — Sochi is plowing ahead with the giant task of getting ready for its moment on the world stage two years from now. It's no exaggeration to say Russia was awarded the games because of Putin. In 2007, he traveled all the way to Guatemala City, swept IOC members off their feet and spoke in English at the final presentation to secure the Olympics for Sochi in a three-city vote. Since then, Putin — both as president and prime minister — has...

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... illusion and obsessional delusion. Pushkin Theater. 7 p.m. Moliere: Mikhail Shirvindt and Vera Vasilyeva star in Yury Yeryomin’s staging of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play “A Cabal of Hypocrites.” Satire Theater. 7 p.m. Notes of a Russian Traveler (Zapiski Russkogo Puteshestvennika): Yevgeny Grishkovets’ play about the comic adversarial relationship between two men. Stars Vasily Bochkaryov and Vladimir Steklov. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m. MT Pick One Absolutely Happy Village...

... Respubliki ends at the pedestrian-only Lover's Bridge, a suspension bridge connecting the city center to a sleepy village-like neighborhood. Locals know that if you jump on the bridge at the right point, you can feel it move up and down as a shock wave travels through the pathway. At the bridge's head there are stairs to the picturesque newly constructed embankment, built with local marble from the nearby Ural Mountains. If you have time or the weather is poor, head across the street from the...

... entire flight from the northern Russian city of Nadym. "Alexander drank Beluga [vodka] almost all three hours of the flight, while not eating anything with it even once," she told Life News. The flight was on a Tu-134 specially equipped for travel by a small number of VIP passengers, who were offered unlimited amounts of alcohol during the flight. Dodds was hospitalized after the accident Saturday, but his condition quickly improved and he was set to be released on Monday, Life News reported...