Moscow

A flight between London and New York lasts about seven hours. But for adventure lovers everywhere, there may soon be a second choice: To drive there!

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on Saturday that the declining interest of Russian tourists towards Bulgaria could be compensated by visitors from the rest of Europe.

Russia and Ukraine represented an important, but not the sole market for Bulgarian tourism, Angelkova added in an interview for private bTV station.

There were two Bulgarians among the foreign nationals evacuated from war-torn Yemen by a Russian plane last night, the foreign ministry in Sofia said late on Monday .

The nationality of the Bulgarian citizens was confirmed following completion of data processing of the evacuees by the crisis centre established by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis is due to meet his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak and the chief executive of energy giant Gazprom, Alexey Miller, in Moscow on Monday.

Aghia Napa mayor Yannis Karousos estimates that Russian tourists visiting Cyprus in 2015 will be reduced by 30-50%.

Karousos took part in the 22nd International Travel and Tourism Exhibition MITT 2015, which took place in Moscow last week.

Russia is ready to mass produce their supersonic transport plane, despite US officials thinking that this can never happen.

According to the Kremlin, the Russian arms industry designed and is ready to produce their new transport plane, dubbed the PAK TA. Moscow claims that 80 of these massive supersonic warplanes will be roaming the skies by 2024.

By Stathis Kousounis

Tourism bookings from Russia this season have so far shown a massive yearly decline of 50 to 60 percent at Greece?s popular destinations, according to the president of the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis.

BELGRADE - Prominent Russian opera artists and pedagogues Ljuba Kazarnovskaya and Lora Kvint and singer and musician Andrei Bill of the the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (ICA Moscow) will give master classes to students in Belgrade and Novi Sad, the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Belgrade has said in a release.

A fire broke out on the night of March 15 in the bell tower of Moscow?s Novodevichy Convent, one of the Russian capital?s most noted visitor attractions and also home to the grave of legendary Turkish poet Naz?m Hikmet.

Russia?s lurch into recession has hit many tourism and luxury goods companies hard, forcing them to cut prices and in turn costs in an attempt to limit the damage.

And there are few signs things will get better soon, with a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine doing little to ease international tensions over Moscow?s support for pro-Russian separatists in the region.