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St. Petersburg wants to allow visa-free visits via the airport

photo credit: И. Максим
Since May of this year, allowed tourists arriving by cruise ship in St. Petersburg, stay up to 72 hours without visas in the city. Even this, the Prime Minister Putin (itself closely connected with the city), approved exemption came from the St. Petersburg administration. The preliminary results show the positive [...]

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Putin received Chief of Rostourism

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For the first time in his tenure as President or Prime Minister Putin received the official representative of the Russian tourism industry, the chief of Rostourism, Anatoly Yarotchkin.
The statements still sound like 30 years ago, but which differ from the Chancellor's Office is not too much of it.
Interestingly, the figures before the Yarotchkin Putin "Reported":
Topic 1 [...]

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Putin's list

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Just before the turn of the year the Russian government has published VV Putin aka the list of system-building organizations (businesses, corporations).
The list includes the companies that wants to go under the Russian state under any circumstances. For state guarantees for bank loans and subsidies to reduce interest charges can be provided. Need to get on that list [...]

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Tour a la russe

Photo by kyrandesa (Creative Commons 2.0)
Russia is once again on everyone's lips. Unfortunately, not in the positive sense.
The events of recent times, however, show a fairly clear - [...] the forms of political power and their own self-understanding international encounter in much of the political class and the corresponding coverage even when the mass of our citizens

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