E-Visas for Saint-Petersburg`s Foreign Visitors

On July, 18, 2019 Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that foreign citizens will get the opportunity to enter Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region by means of E-visas. Now the same right is used in the Far East and Kaliningrad regions.  This process started in Russia on September, 3, 2016 when the president said about E-visas for Vladivostok for the first time. And the first E-visa was issued on August, 10, 2017 for the citizen of Saudi Arabia. There were 85 thousand E-visas issued till June 2019 for the free port of Vladivostok. 65 thousand of them were issued for the Chinese citizens.   On February, 27 in 2017 at "Sochi-2017" investment forum Anton Alkhanov said about the plans for E-visas for Kaliningrad too. Practice of issuing them started on July,1, 2019. The first e-visa was issued for the Polish citizen. Now they are able for the 53 European countries...
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Russia is ready to invest billions of dollars in Croatia under some conditions

Last year, more than 122,000 Russian tourists visited Croatia, which is three percent more than were recorded in the previous year, but at the same time, there was a drop in overnight stays made by Russians, by two percent.  “Russian companies are ready to invest as much as $50 billion in Croatia’s,” the Russian ambassador to Croatia has said.  “Nobody has the power to invest as much into Croatia as Russia has, neither the European Union nor the United States of America. There are preconditions that Croatia must meet,” the Ambassador Anvar Azimov said on Monday during the Zagreb-Moscow economic forum.  At the forum, which was held during the “Moscow Days in Zagreb”, Azimov said that Russia was ready to invest several billion Euros into Croatia, but Croatia must show interest and create the proper preconditions for these...
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Rhythm od Mediterranean - Festival of the food, art, music and rhythm

Zagreb, Croatia  10-14July 2019  Following the Mediterranean unity and diversity, Rhythm of Mediterranean is an international cultural and tourism manifestation with a goal of bringing different cultural, industrial and societal contemporaries from Mediterranean together countries, regions and cities. This event  is connecting Mediterranean Area with concept Unity in diversity.in the Mediterranean societies, the unity based on an understanding, presentation and promotion  that difference enriches human interactions. There’s no better way to truly experience a destination than by partaking in local traditions, events and festivals. The event is a collaboration of  Croatia, France,Greece, Italy,Lebanon, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, organized  by The Rhythm of Mediterranean Organization with the  support of Zagreb City and ...
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Tourism and Technology for better intercultural communication

This is the topic of this year’s FIJET academy for young journalists. The training is taking place in Northern Cyprus - a place worth it discovering not only because of the Mediterranean views which reminds of paradise but also because of the unique local culture and history full of lessons for the whole humanity. Northern Cyprus is one of the most appropriate places for such topic. On its small territory there are 19 international universities. In one of them, Final International University, right now the young journalists are discussing how to improve the intercultural communication. Professors from all over the world are invited to participate in the academy. So far most of them empathize on the opportunities that touristm provides in order countries and nations to avoid conflicts. “Discovering each other’s culture gives us understanding of the other nations. And...
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