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Organizer of fatal Elbrus ascent makes full confession as part of case

An organizer of the ascent of the mountain Elbrus on Monday voluntary surrendered and made full confession in a case over the death of five tourists during their climbing.

16:29 27.09.2021

Draft law on rural tourism submitted to Russia’s State Duma

A bill envisaging support and development of tourism in rural areas and small towns of Russia has been submitted to the State Duma.

16:54 30.03.2021

Russia’s PM issues instructions as to expansion of tourist cashback program for students

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has instructed his deputy to thorough finalize the tourist cashback program schoolchildren and students could take advantage of the program's opportunities already this summer.

16:34 29.03.2021

Probe initiated after deadly avalanching in Murmansk Region

Investigators launched a criminal case after avalanche collapse in the Murmansk Region resulted in the death of a minor girl.

12:03 23.03.2021

Russian Government to allocate over $27 mln for new tourist cashback programme stage

The Government of Russia resumes the tourist cashback programme envisaginh partially return of money for the purchase of journeys round Russia and will allocate 2 billion rubles (over $27 million) for these purposes.

10:59 15.03.2021

Tourist visa processing for foreigners may be simplified in Russia

The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted a bill to simplify tourist visa processing for foreigners going to Russia to the State Duma.

14:48 03.11.2020

Draft law on e-visa for foreigners passed by lower house of Russian parliament

The State Duma adopted a bill on e-visa for foreigners in a final third reading on Tuesday.

14:42 21.07.2020

Russian government proposes e-visa processing for foreigners

Russian government has submitted a bill on e-visa for foreigners to the lower house of parliament.

12:31 21.04.2020

Ex-Deputy PM assistant to stay detained till July in tourism bribery case

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended detention of Anastasia Alekseyeva, ex-assistant of the former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, in a tourism bribery case for three months.

11:59 15.04.2020

St. Petersburg ombudsman helps tourists stranded in Bulgaria return home

St. Petersburg residents unable to leave Bulgaria because of the travel restrictions introduced due to the coronavirus infection outbreak have returned home, the office of the city rights commissioner Alexander Shishlov informs RAPSI.

15:12 27.03.2020

Russia’s State Duma simplifies e-visa entry of foreigners to Far East

The State Duma has passed in the third and final reading a bill extending a simplified entry of foreign citizens having e-visas to Russia’s Far East region.

16:12 12.02.2020

Russian Cabinet of Ministers proposes unified register of travel agents

Russian government has submitted a bill on creation of a unified register of travel agents to the State Duma.

12:12 10.01.2020

Russian lawmakers back Far East tourism development bill

The State Duma passed two bills on the development of tourism in Russia’s Far East in the first reading on Tuesday.

17:31 05.11.2019

Travel firm CEO gets suspended term for failure to return Russian tourists from China

A CEO of the tour operator Purl River has received a 2-year suspended sentence for abuse of office.

15:27 25.10.2019

Russian court to examine fraud case against manager of travel company

A court in the Russian town of Angarsk is to review a case launched against a manager of the Natalie Tours company charged with fraud amounting to 2 million rubles ($30,500 at the current exchange rate), RAPSI has been told by the Prosecutor General’s Office press-service.

16:52 22.02.2019

Ruling on recovery of $26 mln from ex-CEO of Russian tour operator overturned

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling ordering recovery of 1.75 billion rubles (over $26 million) as liability for debts from Dmitry Fesik, ex-CEO of Yuzhny Krest (Southern Cross) Travel company.

14:48 18.01.2019

Fraud case launched against employees of troubled Russian tour company

An inspection carried by the Moscow prosecutor’s office resulted in the embezzlement case being launched against employees of the troubled Natalie Tours company.

13:36 03.10.2018

Prosecutors initiate inspection of Russian major tour operator

Prosecutors have initiated inspection of one of the largest Russian tour operators Natalie Tours over the company’s compliance with the law on consumer protection and tourism operations.

11:20 20.07.2018

President Putin lifts ban on tourist trips to Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin during the meeting with the government on Wednesday ordered removal of administrative restrictions from tourist trips to Turkey.

15:47 29.06.2016

Top executive of bankrupt travel company to be extradited from Serbia to Russia

Sergei Azarskov, a top executive at the bankrupt travel company Labirint who has been arrested in Serbia on fraud charges, will be extradited to Russia.

10:32 17.08.2015