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FIRST ALGOTHERM SPA OPENED IN MAMAISON POKROVKA SUITE HOTEL
MaMaison Pokrovka Suite hotel keeps on breaking fresh ground on the Moscow market. The first five-star all-suite design-boutique hotel of the capital, the hotel now has come to open the flagship Algotherm Spa centre in Russia. MaMaison Pokrovka Suite hotel keeps on breaking fresh ground on the Moscow market. The first five-star all-suite design-boutique hotel of the capital, the hotel now has come to open the flagship Algotherm Spa centre in Russia.

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New Grand Hyatt Moscow Residences & Spa in Federation Complex
At the beginning of 2009, we are supposed to witness a landmark event for the Russian travel industry – the boutique hotel Grand Hyatt Moscow Residences & Spa will first open its doors for the guests. The deluxe hotels for 18 suites and 7 spa-suites will be located in the Zapad (West) Tower of the Federation business complex and will be the tallest hotel of Moscow and Russia.

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First Marriott Courtyard Hotel to Open in Saint Petersburg
Late October is the scheduled time for the long-awaited opening of the first hotel under the Marriott courtyard brand, the construction being under way from 2001. The area of the building totals 16 000 sq m and is primarily aimed at business tourists.

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New Five-Star Hotel Complex to Appear in Moscow Region
The American company Thor is planning to erect the five-star Alpen Rose Ski&Spa Hotel and entertainment park in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region, next to the Sorotchany ski resort and Ilyinskoe village.

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Four Seasons Hotel to Open in Saint Petersburg in 2009
A new deluxe hotel is to be opened in Saint Petersburg in 2009 and is to be located in the Lobanovy-Rostovskie family’s palace known as the «House With Lions».

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Mandarin Oriental Luxury Hotel to Be Opened in Moscow in 2011
In 2011, a deluxe hotel will be opened in the very centre of the capital. The management will be executed by the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The Mandarin Oriental, Moscow hotel will be located in the city downtown, in the centre of its business and cultural life – the Tverskaya street.

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Kempinski Beryozki Moscow on the Klyazminsky Reservoir
A new Kempinski hotel will be built in the Moscow Region on the bank of the Klyazminsky Reservoir 11 kilometers north of the Moscow Ring Road in Ostashkovskoe Shosse. The site near the settlement of Povedniki that was chosen for the construction is more than 20 hectares in area extent.

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New Business Center and Hotel in Konnaya Street
A multifunctional business center with a hotel will be built during the period from 2008 to 2010 in 6 Konnaya Street, Saint Petersburg not far from Nevskiy Prospect and Moskovskiy Railway Station.

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Day of St Pyotr and Fevroniya Being Celebrated in Russia
Today, on July 8 Russian people are celebrating the Day of Love, Family and Faithfulness – the Orthodox analogue of the Saint Valentine’s Day. On this occasion, the city administration has made a present to all the citizens and guests of the capital – the opportunity to visit concerts and the Zoo for free.

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Reconstruction of Aerostar Hotel Successfully Finished
The four-star Aerostar hotel in Moscow has opened its doors after a reconstruction. The guests are welcome to sample the 281 refurbished well-appointed rooms (including 27 Junior Suites) overlooking the Petrovskiy Palace constructed by the architect Kazakov.

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Premier Inn Chain to Enter Russian Market
The British chain of three-star hotels under the Premier Inn brand is planning to start developing the Russian hotel market in the near future. The new hotel will be built by the British group Whitbread PLC in collaboration with the Russian developer company Makromir.

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Yaroslavl to Get 10 New Hotels For 1000th Anniversary
One of the oldest Russian towns – Yaroslavl – is getting ready to celebrate its anniversary in 2010. Within the framework of the preparation for the jubilee, the construction of new edifices including hotels is well under way. By 2010 10 new hotels in different districts of the city are expected to have been built.

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Sokos Hotel Olympic Garden Opened in the Centre of St Petersburg
The new Sokos Hotel Olympic Garden has opened in the centre of Saint Petersburg on the territory of the Olympia park. The investment bulk into the hotel’s construction has totaled 32 mln euro. The general contractor is the Swedish company JBG.

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Third Period of Reconstruction Completed in Grand Hotel Europe
The most prestigious hotel in Saint Petersburg – Grand Hotel Europe – has announced the successful completion of the 3d period of the hotel’s renovation. The total investment sum has amounted to $2 000 000. The large-scale overhaul started in 2005, in the year of the hotel’s 130th anniversary.

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New five star hotel in Gelendzhik
A new 4-5 star hotel is to be built in Gelendzhik withing the framework of constructing the «Tonkiy Mys» multifunctional complex. The complex will occupy the territory of 16 hectares surrounded by water.

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The First Azimut Hotel in Moscow
In 2010 the first three-star hotel belonging to the Azimut Hotels Company will be opened in Moscow. It will be situated near the Tulskaya metro station and will be part of the multifunctional complex “Danilovskaya Manufactory 1867”.

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Hotel Complex & Yacht Club to Appear in Saint Petersburg
The «Petrovskiy Alyans» company has announced its plans to erect a new hotel complex with a yacht club on the Petrogradskaya side of the city. The complex will be located on the territory of the «Spetstrans» factory specializing on the water craft construction and maintenance.

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Deluxe Versace Hotel to Appear in Russia
The owners of the renowned luxury empire are well under way with expanding the borders of the legendary brand. In the near future the world will see a whole chain of Palazzo Versace Hotels, with one of the hotels to appear in Russia.

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Red Rose in the Center of Moscow
A new business area – the Krasnaya Roza 1875 (the Red Rose 1875) – will appear in Moscow within the next few years. The development project embracing the period till 2011 was approved by the KR Properties Company in collaboration with the Sergey Kisselev and Partners Architectural Studio.

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The First InterContinental Hotel to Appear in Moscow
The first five-star hotel under the InterContinental brand will appear in Moscow on the site of the Minsk hotel (Tverskaya 22). The hotel is to be opened in 2010. The new hotel has been conceived as part of the multifunctional Summit complex.

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Holiday Inn to Settle Down in Nizhniy Novgorod
One of the key players of the world travel market – the InterContinental Hotels Group company has expressed an interest in the hotel market of Nizhniy Novgorod. The international chain is intending to introduce the Holiday Inn brand into the region. The local Hotel-Invest-Nizhniy Novgorod company is eager to render two hotels to be managed by the company.

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The Best International Hotel Brands in Perm
The Asia Group of Companies will construct a new hotel complex in Perm. It will bear the Hilton brand that belongs to the InterContinental Hotels Group

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Radisson Hotel to Appear in Chelyabinsk
The international hotel operator Rezidor Hotel Group has set its mind to opening a hotel in the largest industrial centre of Southern Urals in the first quarter of 2010. Radisson will be the first hotel in Chelyabinsk managed by this renowned operating company.

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«Volzhskaya Rivyera» Manor to Appear in Uglitch
The ancient city Uglitch located on the Volga riverside is one of the gems of the Russian Golden Ring and is renowned due to the magnificent palace ensemble of the Uglitsch Kremlin and ancient temples. In the very near future a new classy hotel complex is to be erected in the very heart of the city.

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Four-Star Heliopark Hotel in Kaliningrad
The new Heliopark Kaiserhof Business Hotel & SPA opened this spring in the center of Kaliningrad. Two buildings of the hotel are located in one of the central streets of the city on the bank of the Staraya Pregolya River; they are surrounded with numerous places of interest, public gardens, museums and shops.

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20 Park Plaza Hotels to Be Built in Russia by 2012
The Park Plaza Company has lately signed a treaty enabling it to manage 20 hotels that are to be built in Russia by 2012. The hotels will be erected by the Ferens Management Limited company which is controlled by «Renova Stroygroup». The aggregate room fund of the hotels will total up to 3500-4000 guest rooms.

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New Park Inn Hotel in Kazan
A new four-star hotel will be built in the center of business activity of Kazan by the end of 2011 or early in 2012. Construction works will be supervised by the Clover Group Holding Company, a leading development company in Russia, and the Rezidor Hotel Group, a large-scale international hotel operator, should manage the hotel in future.

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New Hotel to Be Built Next to Tchaikovsky Museum
The Klin town located in the Moscow surroundings and famous due to the Tchaikovsky museum situated here is soon to turn into a real Mecca for tourists – it will house the building of a large-scale hotel complex. The four-star state-of-the-art hotel will be located in the Demyanovskiy thoroughfare,next to the museum and the Stroitel stadium.

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Free Visits to Moscow Museums
This spring all museums of Moscow will be open for free visits during two days – on April 18 and on May 18. Free admission to all museums, exhibition halls and art galleries of the capital will be timed to the Days of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow.

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New Luxurious Hotel Two Steps Away from Red Square
New deluxe hotel will open in future years in 3 and 5/1 Bogoyavlensky Side Street, Moscow. Unique location within several minutes of walking distance from the Gostiny Dvor, the Main Department Store, Red Square and the Kremlin is one of its main advantages.

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Tourist Areas in the East of Moscow
Four cultural and recreational zones – Izmailovskaya, Kuskovskaya, Losinoostrovskaya and Sokolnicheskaya – should be created by the end of 2011 in the east of the capital.

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Beer-Related Museum Opened in St Petersburg
Today Saint Petersburg hosted the opening of the Museum of the History of Brewing – the first repository of the traditions and mysteries of this ancient and honourable craft in Russia. The museum is a unique collection of exhibits, many of them having no analogues in Russia.

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Hotel and Restaurant in the Gostiny Dvor
A hotel and a restaurant will be opened in the famous Gostiny Dvor a few steps away from Red square. Now the Gostiny Dvor is used for exhibitions and events organizing, its premises are rented by offices, shops, cafes and other institutions.

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Ice Hotel to Appear in Saint Petersburg
An ice complex consisting of a mini-hotel and a museum is planned to be created in Saint Petersburg. The idea is supposed to be incarnated by the «Ice Studio» company that can also boast the authorship of a renowned palace of Anna Ioannovna on the Palace Square.

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New Five-Star Resort in Moscow Region
The new hotel and resort Tsargrad Spas-Teshilovo opened in Serpukhov district of Moscow region. It is located 80 kilometers away from Moscow not far from the town of Pushchino on the right bank of the Oka River.

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Second Manhattan to Emerge by Nizniy Novgorod
The Nizhniy Novgorod governor Valeriy Shantsev has given a go-ahead to the renowned Italian trail-blazer architect Dante Oscar Benini to project a city called «Globe Town» by Nizhniy Novgorod.

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Popularity of Altai Is Growing
A real investment boom has been taking shape recently in tourist objects of Gorny Altai. New recreation centers and hotels are opening, mini-hotels and cottages on the basis of former village houses are springing up. Excellent conditions for sports and treatment attract both Russians and foreigners.

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Gorniy Vozduh in Sakhalin Will Be Reconstructed
Government of Sakhalin region and a Swiss company completed an arrangement priced at 50 million dollars, which implies construction of a new business-class hotel, 10-15 one- and two-storied chalets (VIP cottages), a leisure center on the top of the mountain and a spa center in the territory of the Gorniy Vozduh resort complex.

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Hotel and Resort Complex in Tula Region
Construction of a large-scale hotel and resort complex is in progress in Zaoksky district of Tula region on the bank of the Oka River. Its total area will amount to 400 hectares. The Veles Capital Development Company is the investor of the project.

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International Exhibition Center in Yekaterinburg
On March 17 the International Exhibition Center will be laid down in the city of Yekaterinburg.

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Comfortable and Fascinating Rest in Russia
Not long ago most of tourist who come Russia preferred visiting Moscow, St Petersburg, cities of the Golden Ring and Sochi. Nowadays foreign and Russian travelers may choose between multiple interesting trips, including tours to not very popular regions.

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Resort in the Homeland of Yuri Gagarin
A resort area will be built in Smolensk region that is the homeland of the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The total area of the complex will exceed 750 thousand square meters.

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March 8 in Swissotel Krasnye Kholmy Moscow
On the occasion of the most long-awaited spring holiday Swissotel Krasnye Kholmy offers as many as 3 different variants of the convivial festivity – to please each and every lady.

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British-Style Hotel Opened in St Petersburg
Thanks to the «St Petersburg Hotels» company the new «Greenwich» mini-hotel has appeared in the Saint Petersburg downtown. At the end of February the business class hotel welcomed its first guests.

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St Petersburg Turned into Bear City
Bruins strolling through the halls of Hermitage and on the roof of the Kazan Cathedral – such reels will be promoting Saint Petersburg as an attractive city for foreign tourists on the most popular international channels – CNN and Euronews.

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Great Pancake Week in the Best Moscow Hotels
Shrove-tide (or Pancake Week) is known as the most jovial and lavish-in-repast Slavic feast symbolizing the beginning of the spring revival of nature. First of all, this tradition is associated with bountiful and abundant treats, with all sorts of pancakes playing the key role.

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New Ski Resort in the Krasnodar region
On the territory of the Apsheron district of the Krasnodar region a new high-level ski resort – the mountain climatic Lago-Naki resort - is to be opened. Among the main tasks of the project is the creation of routes that would surpass the routes the popular Krasnaya Polyana in terms of their diversity and technical characteristics.

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Moscow Acquires New Hotels
The capital of Russia is especially noted for deficiency in hotels of moderate cost, but pronounced tendency to solve the problem has already begun to show. Within the next few years multiple three-star hotels should open in the city.

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Sheremetev Park Hotel in Ivanovo
On October 12, 2006 the Sheremetev Park Hotel opened in Ivanovo. That was the first four-star hotel in the city to reach the European level of hospitality where foreign businessmen may be proud to stay.

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Toulouse-Lautrec’s Graphic Works in Tretyakovskaya Gallery
Up to May 4 the Engineer building of the Tretyakovskaya gallery will house an exhibition of the graphic works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) from the collection of the Library of the National Institute of the Art History of France. The exhibition entitled «The pleasures of Paris» represents 83 etchings and lithographs by the famous post-impressionist.

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Grand Hyatt Residences & Spa in Moscow City
Construction and installation works started at the West Tower of the Federation Tower complex that will result in appearance of the new luxurious Grand Hyatt Residences & Spa Hotel on the 60-62 floors of the building. The hotel is due to open in autumn.

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Celebration of the Pancake Week in Moscow
The first week of March all Russian cities and towns will see off winter – the traditional Pancake week festival (Maslenitsa) will take place. In Moscow more than 200 events will be timed to this heathen holiday.

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Baltschug Kempinski to be Reconstructed
In the end of 2008 renewal work will be started in the oldest five-star hotel of the capital – Baltschug Kempinski hotel, said Tuesday the vice-president of the Kempinski hotels group for Eastern Europe, director-general of the Baltschug Kempinski Moscow hotel Gianni van Daalen.

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Two new hotels in Saint Petersburg
In the immediate future two brand-new hotels will open in Saint Petersburg.
In autumn of 2008 the Prestige Hotel will be opened in 54 Bolshaya Morskaya Street. It will be a member of the Domina Hotel Group, an Italian hotel chain.

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UFO Museum to Appear in Russia
In the near future a UFO museum and special tourist villages are expected to be opened in the Tolyatti city. Tolyatti has not been granted the status of the «anomalous» capital of Russia at haphazard – the city itself and neighboring Samarskaya Luka have long been venues for different abnormal phenomena.

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Wi-Fi Internet Access in Pulkovo Airport
The Metrocom, a universal telecom operator, in collaboration with the directorate of the Pulkovo St Petersburg Airport set the first wireless Internet access points in the territory of Pulkovo-2.

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The First Hesperia Hotel to Be Opened in St Petersburg
One of the leading hotel brands of Spain – the Hesperia Hotels chain – has lately announced its new ambitious plans – the building of the first Hesperia hotel in Russia. The luxurious hotel will be located in Saint Petersburg.

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King’s Road Appeared in St Petersburg Region
A new travel itinerary – «King’s road» binding Priozyorsk and Vyborg - appeared in the region of Saint Petersburg. In the 5th century a section of the king’s road connecting all the Swedish fortresses lay here.

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Leningradskaya Hotel to Become a Hilton
Moscow mayer Yuriy Luzhkov announced that the «Leningradskaya» Hotel on the Komsomolskaya square will change its name and status – it will become a four-star Hilton hotel. Last Saturday the mayor, together with a group of Moscow heads, had a «tour» of the restored hotel.

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Village for Tourists Built by Velikiy Novgorod
A tourist’s village appeared not far from the Yuryev monastery by Velikiy Novgorod. The first turn of the «Yuryevskoe podvorye» village comprises a hotel for 16 two-room suites of different categories, 2 restaurants for 20 and 30 persons, a skating rink and a spotlit skiing route.

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Four New Hotels Will Be Built out of Elements of the Demolished Rossiya Hotel
Moscow authorities approved of the conception to build four new hotels in the outskirts of the city out of details of the Rossiya Hotel that was demolished in 2006-2007. Ground areas for them are already selected.

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Catherine Palace in St Petersburg to Become Gilded
Within the framework of the restoration of the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg the facade of the palace will be covered with gold as it was in the 18-19 centuries. 2,5 billion rubles will be taken from the state budget to get this task accomplished, said Mikhail Shvydkoy, head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography.

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World Elite of Jazz in Borodino Business Hotel
These days, on February 5-8, the Borodino business hotel (part of the services spectrum of the Borodino hotel complex) meets the foreign jazz ensemble «48th street», which will perform in the Great hall of the Moscow Conservatoire within the framework of the «Jazz: theme with variations» series.

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New Park Inn Hotel to Appear on Nevskiy Avenue
The third hotel managed by the Park Inn brand will open near the Moscow railway station in Saint Petersburg. The construction is supposed to be finished in the first quarter of 2009. The total investments volume according to different estimations aggregates $30-50 mln.

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Vietnamese Hotel to Be Built in Moscow
A new major project – Vietnamese business centre with a hotel - will be erected in the north-eastern part of Moscow. The complex, with the total area of 4,9 hectares, will be located on the 94th km of the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), at the intersection of the Yaroslavskoe highway.

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New Mini Hotel in the Center of Nizhniy Novgorod
In January 2008 the first mini hotel of the Lounge Street hotels chain opened in the central street of Nizhniy Novgorod in the office center building. In the middle of the year and at the beginning of 2009 two more small hotels of the chain will appear in the city.

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Foreign Tourists Are Welcome in St Petersburg Suburbs
According to the experts’ opinion, such suburbs of Saint Petersburg as Peterhof, Pushkin and Sestroretsk are the major places of interest of foreign tourists. Nevertheless, a number of measures aimed at attracting tourists (including, foreign ones) is now being taken in other St Petersburg suburbia, too.

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Contemporary Art Museum to Appear on MKAD
The largest museum of Contemporary Art will be built in the proximity to MKAD (Moscow Ring Road) on the territory of the Zarechye sovkhoz. The museum will be the core of the Artrings conceptual project opened in 2007 by the Swiss Realty Group company.

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St Valentine’s Day with Marco Polo St Petersburg Hotel
On Saint Valentine’s Day (February 14) the Marco Polo restaurant located in the Marco Polo Saint Petersburg hotel invites you to plunge into the atmosphere of a romantic jollification in the elegant interiors appointed in the «Old Petersburg» style.

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Marriott Hotel to Be Erected in Yekaterinburg
A five-star hotel managed by the Marriott company will be erected in the Yekaterinburg downtown and occupy a 54-storey building. The outward appearance of the skyscraper will resemble a mast with sails, with the total area exceeding 170 square metres and the height tantamount to 230 metres.

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62 New Hotels to be Built in Nizhniy Novgorod
62 hotels of different categories will be built in Nizhniy Novgorod in the very near future, said the region’s governor Valeriy Shantsev on Wednesday at the sitting of the Investment Board. A multitude of service and tourist centres will also be erected in the districts of the region.

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Novotel Will Be Opened in Kaluga
A new four-star Novotel Hotel will be built in Kaluga in the framework of the City Park Kaluga project incarnated by the Tashir Company. Construction works will be carried out together with the Accor Group, one of the large-scale European hotel operators that will manage the hotel in future.

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«Stroisib 2008» to be Held in February in Novosibirsk
The «Stroisib 2008» international exhibition of construction, architecture and woodwork is to open in February in Novosibirsk. The forum is primarily aimed at drawing the public attention and potential investors, exchanging scientific, technological and economical information, as well as enhancing the overall prestige of the building field.

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Project of the Apraksin Yard Reconstruction Can Be Changed
On January 25 the competition between two projects of the Apraksin Yard reconstruction will be summed up. Two companies – the Glavstroy-SPb in the person of Chris Wilkinson and the Renaissance Apraksin Yard presented by Norman Foster – dispute the right to renovate the historical monument in the center of Saint Petersburg.

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Tsereteli’s Photo Archive in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
An exhibition of the photographs from Zurab Tsereteli’s personal archive opens in the Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is timed to the 40th anniversary of the Moscow studio of the present President of the Russian Academy of Arts.

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The Main Wedding Palace Will Open in Strastnoy Boulevard
The chief of the Moscow Civilian Registry Office Directorate Irina Muravyova told that the new Wedding Palace would be opened in the near future in the capital that would officially become the main civilian registry office of Moscow.

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Museum of Glass in Saint Petersburg
A unique museum of glass will be opened by the end of 2008 in the Greenhouse building of the Elaginoostrovsky palace in St Petersburg. Reconstruction works of the building are close to the end now.
Visitors will be able to see equipment for glass processing, familiarize themselves with Russian traditions of its production in the halls of the palace.

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St Valentine’s Day in Baltschug Kempinski Moscow Hotel
Less than a month is left until St Valentine’s Day and it is high time to think of an unusual present for your soulmate. If you are designing to surprise your second half with something really unforgettable, a romantic dinner at the restaurant of the Baltschug Kempinski Moscow hotel is your choice.

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Hyatt Hotel in Yekaterinburg to Be Built by May 9
The building of the new five-star Hyatt hotel in the Yekaterinburg downtown will be finished by May 9. Hyatt will be part of the architectural ensemble of «Yekaterinburg-city», business area in the centre of Yekaterinburg embracing some 400,000 sq.m. of offices, hotels, commercial and trade spaces, entertainment centres, restaurants and cafes.

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The New Barvikha Hotel & Spa in Moscow
This summer Moscow is supposed to welcome one more luxury hotel – Barvikha Hotel & Spa on Rublyovskoe highway. The details of this project were withheld for a long time and were revealed to the public only a very short time ago.

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«Bethlehem Star» Christmas Festival in Saint Petersburg
Yesterday the Small Hall of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire hosted the opening of the third «Bethlehem Star» Christmas International Music Festival which will present Christmas music of different centuries – from the Middle Ages to our days.

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Cardboardtown Opened in Moscow
A town made of cardboard and paper was opened yesterday in the exhibition centre of «PRОЕКТ_FАBRIКА». According to the conception of the project’s authors, Cardboardtown is supposed to be simultaneously the place for an interactive fair, a music festival and a role play.

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Best Night of the Year in the Forum Hall Conference Center
On December,31 a truly unexampled entertainment program will be offered to the guests by the «Forum Hall» Conference and Event Center (Paveletskaya metro station). From midnight on an unsurpassed firework of astounding surprises will await the guests.

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Sretensky Boulevard Metro Station Opened in Moscow
Today the underground of the Russian capital presents the new 174th station under the name “Sretensky Boulevard”. The station is located on the Lublinskaya line and will facilitate the southeastern part of the metro, especially the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line that has been working at the breaking point for many years.

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Bolshoy Theater Will Open after Reconstruction in 2009
In January 2009 the main building of the Bolshoy Theater will be opened after long reconstruction that started in July 2005. The first performance on the main stage will be the opera of Mikhail Glinka “Ruslan and Ludmila”. The opening night will take place on October 1, 2009.

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Rare Butterflies in Winter Saint Petersburg
On the eve of New Year all guests and inhabitants of Saint Petersburg can find themselves in the atmosphere of the tropics. An exhibition of rare butterflies opened in the exotarium of St Petersburg zoo. They arrived from European nurseries in the form of chrysalides and hatched out already in Russia.

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Austrian Library Opened in Yekaterinburg
The inauguration of the first Austrian library in the region was held in Yekaterinburg last Thursday. The book fund of the new library aggregates 750 books delivered from Vienna.

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The Theatre of Light on the Arts Square in Saint Petersburg
The first light and musical holiday show «The Arts Square» took place in the center of Saint Petersburg in the presence of the city’s governor Valentina Matvienko. The citizens got it as a New Year and Christmas present.

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New Year for Gourmets in Swissotel Krasnye Holmy
Swissotel Krasnye Holmy offers all the persons interested to set off for a world gastronomic tour, with the itinerary including the most original masterpieces of the world art of cookery.

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New Park Inn Sadu Hotel to be Opened in the Centre of Moscow
Early next year Rezidor SAS Hotel Group, a well-known hotel operating company, will open the new Park Inn Hotel in the centre of Moscow. The hotel will be situated in the very heart of the Russian capital – in Bolshaya Polyanka street, in close proximity to the Kremlin and the Red Square and near the State Tretyakov Galery and the European Commission office.

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The New Image of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has undergone a large-scale reorganization and rebrending. Yesterday the new up-dated exposition of the contemporary art halls was unveiled in front of the public. Henceforth we are supposed to try comprehending the beauty of Art in a new entourage.

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The First Photo Boutique Opened in the Winzavod Art Centre
The other day the Art-center «Winzavod» hosted the opening of a brand-new, unique project – the Contemporary Photography Boutique «Fotoloft». The very first collection under the general title «Views on Life» includes more than 100 works of Russian and foreign photographers, all of them already on sale.

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«Russian Winter» in the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire
The Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire (opposite the Assambleya Nikitskaya Hotel) is almost ready for the inauguration of the 44th «Russian Winter» Music Festival to be held this Thursday (January, 20).

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Saint Petersburg is ready to welcome the Cyberspace of Fear
The brand-new original attraction called “Nevsky Horror. The Cyberspace of Fear” is to be launched on January,1 in Saint Petersburg.

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New Train on the Route from Moscow to Peking
The Russian Railway Company announced that on December 28, 2007 a new train of superior quality will launched on the route from Moscow to Peking.

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The Art of the 20th Century Fair in the Central House of Artists
All this week from December 8 till 16 a fair of arts under the name “Art of the 20th century” will take place at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. It demonstrates different styles of the Russian art of the previous century – social realism (official Soviet art), so-called “severe style”, work of painters from Soviet republics, objectless art, constructivism, avant-gardism, recusant art.

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The Hermitage Opened Two Exhibitions on Its Birthday
On Friday December 7 the State Hermitage celebrated its 155th birthday. It is commemorated on the feast of St Catherine the Great Martyr, the divine patroness of Catherine the Great who founded the Winter Palace. The latter on December 7, 2008 became the residence of the first public fine arts museum in Russia.

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Anomalous Tourism
Now that we have space tourism and travel engaging wild animals, the most active and advanced players of the travel market have come together on the introduction of something totally novel – alien tourism.

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Fathers Frost’ Games in Karelia
The traditional competition of Fathers Frost will open today in the ancient capital of Karelia – Olonets. 14 Fathers from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Karelia and Leningradskaya region will participate in it.

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The Evolution of the Way in the European Art
Early this week Moscow witnessed the opening of the traditional “December Nights” at the Pushkin museum of fine arts (near the Kebur Palace Hotel) that were founded by the famous musician Svyatoslav Richter. The principal theme of this issue was announced as the image of Road in the art of different cultures and epochs.

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“White Days” in Saint Petersburg
This winter, when hotels in Saint Petersburg are underloaded, a special program under the name “White Days” will be launched in the city to attract tourists. This program has been working for the last five years.

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Accor Group Will Open 20-30 Hotels in Russia
The French Accor Group hotel operator continues to open new hotels under its brands in Russia. At present there are four Accor hotels in our country – two hotels in Moscow (Novotel Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport and Novotel Moscow Center) and two hotels in Saint Petersburg (Novotel St Petersburg Center and Ibis St Petersburg Moskovsky Vokzal).

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New Sightseeing Tour in Yekaterinburg
A new sightseeing tour under the name “Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg – the native city of Boris Yeltsin” is under elaboration now in Yekaterinburg. Next year all guests of the capital of Ural will be able to see “Yeltsin’s sights” – places that are someway concerned with the first Russian president.

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“Siberian Expanses” on the Kremlin Stage
On December 5 the first performance of the Krasnoyarsk Dance Company of Siberia named after Godenko will take place on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. You are already able to buy a ticket for this show in Moscow box offices.

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A New Hotel Will Be Built near the Residence of Baba-Yaga
In the spring of the next year construction of the first hotel of its kind will be started in Kukuboy village located in Yaroslavskaya region. Kukuboy village is famous for sheltering the house of the well-known fabulous character – the witch Baba-Yaga. The hotel is to be opened just near the residence.

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Traveling in Europe by Train
This weekend the Russian Railway Company launched five new international routes from Moscow. Soon you will be able to depart from Moscow railway stations to Amsterdam, Basel, Munich, Paris and Thessaloniki.

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The Main New Year’s Tree in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is being now decorated for the coming New Year’s Day. More than 40 New Year’s trees 14 to 20 meter in height have already adorned the city, and as many ones are to be placed in squares of St Petersburg. 72 artificial trees in all will decorate the city, and one 25-meter forest tree will crown the ensemble.

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Skating on Central Squares of Moscow
Two skating rinks at once will be organized in the center of Moscow this winter. In addition to the ice rink on Red square, which inhabitants and guests of Moscow could already visit last year, a skating rink on Tverskaya Square near the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky opposite the Moscow city hall will be opened this winter.

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Skating Rink in Dvortsovaya Square in St Petersburg
On December 1 the largest temporary skating rink in Europe, the area of which amounts to about five thousand square meters, will open in Dvortsovaya Square in the center of Saint Petersburg. Five thousand people will be able to visit this rink every day.

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“Russian Idea” Is Incarnated in Art
An unusual exhibition of Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, a married couple of artists, has been taking place at the XL gallery in Moscow since October 29. The “Russian idea” is a term that came from the pen of Dostoevsky.

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Soviet Women in the State Russian Museum
The exhibition “Venus Sovietica” that is timed to the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution and collected under the same roof more than 120 articles of painting, graphic arts, sculpture and applied arts opened in Saint Petersburg. It is devoted to women of the Soviet epoch.

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Ruby Kremlin Stars Were Lighted Up 70 Years Ago
Today we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the day when red stars, a symbol of the Soviet Union and the image of Russia that is cognate abroad, were lighted up on the Moscow Kremlin towers. On November 2, 1937 five stars – on Spasskaya, Borovitskaya, Nikolskaya, Vodovzvodnaya and Troitskaya towers – took the place of double eagles, symbols of tsar’s Russia.

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The First Ladies of the Soviet Union and Russia
An exposition showing the women who placed themselves on record in the political life of the 20th century opened at the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. It is devoted to wives of leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia – from Alexandra Fedorovna, the last empress, to Ludmila Putina, the wife of today’s president of Russia.

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Schoolboys and Girls Will Work At the Railway Station
The administration of Saint Petersburg and Russian Railways plan to built a Kids’ railway in the city. It will be a very interesting route – from Vitebskiy Railway Station to Carskoe Selo.

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Art Festival in Moscow
The 14th international art festival named “Art-November” will take place both in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. This year the festival is devoted to the creative work of the founder of the festival Alexey Komech.

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Moscow Claims to Host the Youth Olympic Games
In 2010 the Youth Olympic Games will take place for the first time in history. Ten cities from all over the world dispute the right to host them – Algiers, Athens, Bangkok, Guatemala City, Debrecen, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, Poznan, Singapore and Turin.

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American Art in the Hermitage
The “20/21” program was opened on October 25. It is a long-term project intended for developing the cooperation forms between the leading experts of modern art. The exhibition in the General Staff was opened in the context of the project. It is devoted to the contemporary creative work of American artists – all exhibited works were created in the last three years.

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Monument to Bunin in the center of Moscow
On Monday October 22 a monument to Ivan Bunin, a famous Russian writer, the laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature 1933 for his novel “Arsenyev’s Life”, was unveiled in Povarskaya Street. This event was timed to his 137th birthday.

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Literary Elite in Moscow
On October 23 the Moscow International Poetry Biennale was opened in the Meyerhold center. Poets from seven countries take part in the festival. It was organized with the purpose to acquaint Russian readers with the poetry of foreign authors.

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Rizhsky Railway Station in Moscow Will Become a Museum
At the international festival “Zodchestvo-2007” the chief architect of Moscow made a sensational declaration – in the near future the Rizhsky Railway Station in the capital of Russia will be closed. It was opened September 11, 1901.

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Rublyovka is the Center of Modern Art for 10 Days
The exhibition “Penetration?” of Larry Gagosyan is opened in renowned Barvikha. This person is considered to be one of the most influential art-dealers in the world. The exhibition was organized by Alfa-bank that opened its brunch office in Rublyovka.

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Aqua Taxi Will Appear in Moscow
According to the prefect of the Northwest district of Moscow, aqua taxi will be launched in the city next year. It will run in the Stroginskaya Poima area of water between Strogino and the Moscow-City Moscow International Business Center.

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Imperial China Is in the Kremlin Now
An exhibition of imperial chinaware that was brought from the Winter Palace opened in the Moscow Kremlin. Services, statuettes, vases, which were created since 1744 till 1917, represent incredibly fragile works of art.

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The Return of Buddha in Saint Petersburg
Astonishing archeological finds are often discovered during construction works. In 1996 in the Chinese town of Qingzhou (Shandong province) builders hit on the hiding-place of 400 Buddhist statues from Longxing Temple. It is one of the most successful findings of the last decade, archeologists say.

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Russian Fashion Week
This week one more ring appeared in Moscow – a “Fashion ring”. For these 7 days five grounds that are situated in the center of Moscow became home for Russian designers. This Sunday the regular Russian Fashion Week was opened.

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Shishkin in the State Tretyakov Gallery
In the State Tretyakov Gallery, which is situated in Krymskiy Val Street, a large-scale exhibition was opened. It is devoted to the 175th birthday of Ivan Shishkin, a famous Russian landscape painter. 18 museums of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Kiev, Kazan and Novgorod granted Shishkin’s works from their collections.

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Serebryakova’s Maids of Manoir in Saint Petersburg
Since October 11 till November 28 the exposition “Zinaida Serebryakova. Nudes” will take place in the Benois Wing of the State Russian Museum. Among several tens of works included in the exposition we can mention “Girl Bathing” of 1911, “Baths” of 1912 and 1913, sketches of pictures for the Kazan Railway Station and also eight works of art for Manoir du Relais, a villa of baron de Brouwer in Belgium.

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Works of Rubens and Rembrandt in Yekaterinburg
The exhibition “Two Destinies. Rubens and Rembrandt” is devoted to the creative work of two great artists of the 17th century. The exhibit was taken from the funds of the Kirov Regional Art Museum and the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. The exposition represents a collection of prints made by European artists.

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Filippov’s Bakery Will Be Open at the Centralnaya Hotel
The Moscow government approved the plan of restoration of the Centralnaya Hotel. The five-star hotel is going to appear on this spot. According to the project the historical face of the building will be conserved, but the inner constructions will be demolished and the hotel area is planned to increase.

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New Production of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”
This Saturday the long-expected first performance of “The Coast of Utopia” took place at the Russian Academic Youth Theater opposite the Metropol Hotel. The grandiose trilogy concerning the life of Russian intellectuals, revolutionists and writers of the century before last staged by Alexey Borodin lasts for nine hours, and so the play started at noon and continued till evening.

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The Moscow Center of Arts. Behind the Iron Curtain
On September 27 the Moscow Center of Arts presented a new exhibition of Andrew Moor.
Andrew Moor was born and grew up in the USA during the cold war. The confrontation of two political and ideological systems made a huge impact on his creative work. It was communist culture and communist spirit that became the objects of his artistic research.

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Baranov-Rossine in the Private Collections Museum
From October 4 till November 25 an exhibition of works of the Russian avant-garde artist Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888-1944) will take place in the Museum of Private Collections in Volkhonka Street. His name is little known in Russia. His creative work is a blend of postimpressionism, cubism and cubofuturism that was typical of Paris at the turn of the 20th century.

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President Express between Moscow and St Petersburg
The Oktyabrskaya Railway Company projects to launch a new luxurious named train on route from Moscow to Saint Petersburg next year. As the head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway Company, a branch of the Russian Railway Company, Viktor Stepov specified at the press conference that took part on Monday, exclusive coaches for the President Express have already been put into production.

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Rostropovich’s Collection in the Konstantinovsky Palace
The Russian art collection that had belonged to Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich and was purchased by a Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov at the Sotheby's Auction House will be exhibited in the Konstantinovsky Palace in the environs of St Petersburg, not far from the Baltic Star Hotel.

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The Pashkov House Is Opened after Restoration
The famous Pashkov House, an architectural monument that was closed for visits in remote 1988 because of an accident condition, opens today in Moscow. This beautiful building in Mokhovaya Street belongs to the Russian State Library.

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Coco Chanel in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Yesterday an exhibition by the name “Chanel. L’Art comme Univers” opened in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The curator of the exhibition Jean-Louis Froman intended to show not only the history of creative work of Gabrielle Chanel and her fashion house, but also her inner life and all the sources of her inspiration.

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Playing Cards Museum Opened in Peterhof
On September 26 the first playing card museum in Russia opened in the Peterhof state museum and reserve. Its collection numbers about 30 thousand articles, more than 6 thousand packs of cards. A separate building of the 18th-19th centuries was allotted for the exposition that was earlier a part of Cavalier Houses of the palace government of Peterhof. It was restored this summer.

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Popularity of Moscow with Foreign Tourists Is Rising
At the press conference of yesterday the head of the Moscow City Committee for Tourism Grigory Antufeev told that during the first half of 2007 the number of foreign tourist has increased by 15% as compared with the same period of 2006. During six months 1 million 637 thousand guests from abroad have visited Moscow, and here we only consider those who arrived in Moscow by airplane.

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Autumn Timetable of the Moscow Zoo
In view of the beginning of autumn the Moscow Zoo will now close for visits earlier. Nature-lovers will be able to watch animals only till 7 pm, and ticket offices will close at 6 pm. All these changes are related to shortening of daylight hours.

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Renovation of Triumphal Arch and Borodino Panorama
In 2012 Russia will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the victory of Kutuzov’s army in the Patriotic War of 1812. Preparation for this date has already started in Moscow; a steering committee under the direction of the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov was created which approved a plan of events for the next five years.

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Five-Star Hotel Will Be Built in Place of the Minsk Hotel
A new up-to-date Intercontinental Hotel Complex will be opened at the spot of the Minsk Hotel that was destroyed in 2006. 211 guest rooms, conference halls, a restaurant, a fitness center, a SPA center, office and trade areas and an underground parking for 400 cars will be accommodated in the space of 64 thousand square meters.

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Construction of the Russia Tower in the Moscow City
Today the first stone will be laid in the foundation of the Russia Tower, which will be one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. Its height is projected to amount to 612 meters. This building will be a part of the Moscow City International Business Center and its largest construction.

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Early Music Festival in Saint Petersburg
The 10th International Earlymusic Festival opened in St Petersburg last Sunday. Musicians from the whole world who perform classical music in the original way came to the northern capital. A rare violin from the beginning of the 18th century, a French violoncello in empire style, a harpsichord and other curiosities in hands of musicians sound as they used to do many centuries ago, although their genuine voice can only be judged from ancient treatises.