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Melnik: A Wine Tourist’s Heaven

2011-05-23 by Aleksandr Shatskih

A shop displying Melnik wines for sale

A beautiful landscape dominated by mountains and historical buildings, together with centuries old wine cellars and a famous brand of strong, red wine makes Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s smallest towns, a very special place to visit. Located in the southwestern corner of Bulgaria, Melnik is officially the smallest town in the country, according to local […]

Tags: Bulgaria tourism, Bulgaria wine, Bulgarian wine tourism, Historical Museum of Melnik, Melnik, Melnik Wine, Melnik wine tourism, Wine tourism, Winston Churchill

Russia Should Ease Visa Rules says World Tourism Organization Chief

2011-05-23 by Aleksandr Shatskih

World Tourism Organization general secretary Taleb Rifai

Russia should undertake a review of its strict visa requirements and do more to make travel for foreign tourists in the country easier if they want to attract more visitors to the country, the World Tourism Organization chief has said. “Each nation has the ability to encourage increased tourism through regulation and procedure adjustment,” said […]

Tags: Borscht soup, Joe Biden, Russia tourism, Russia visa requirements, Russian airlines, Russian food, Taleb Rifai, Vladimir Putin, World Tourism Organization

Austria Agrees to Ease Visa Restrictions for Russian Travelers

2011-05-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

President Heinz Fischer of Austria and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia discuss visa rules

Austrian visas are set to become much easier for Russian citizens to obtain after the country’s president agreed to ease current restrictions, saying Vienna should be as liberal as possible when concerning the Schengen Agreement. “If the system works fine for Italy, France and Spain then I do not see why Austria shouldn’t adopt the […]

Tags: Austrian president, Austrian visas, Dmitry Medvedev, Heinz Fischer, Russia visas, Russian president, Russian-EU summit, Schengen agreement, Schengen zone, visa restrictions

Minsk – Trapped in a Soviet Era

2011-05-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Just one of the many Lenin statues in Minsk.

Politically speaking, it may well be on the very edge of Europe, and in more ways than one given some of its government policies, yet in many other ways the mysterious land known as White Russia is an integral part of Central Europe with its rich culture and its depth of history. Belarus has had […]

Tags: Belarus, Belarus travel, Independence Square, Minsk, Minsk travel, President Lukashenko, Soviet style, Soviet Union, stalinist architecture, White Russia

Seoul Set To Unveil Floating Island

2011-05-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Floating Island in South Korea, the world's largest

South Korean authorities today announced that the first section of an enormous artificial island floating in the Han River in Seoul will officially open at the weekend. Known simply as “Floating Island”, the artificial construction is thought to be the largest of its kind in the world (the artificial islands off Dubai do not actually […]

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