😍 Lake Elton – where the sky merges with the water's surface, blurring all boundaries.

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‼️ Doctors who operated on a patient at a cancer center during the Kamchatka earthquake will be nominated for state awards, announced Vladimir Solodov, the head of the region. He instructed the preparation of the necessary documents.

"I want to thank the medical staff for their courage and professionalism. We see that they continued caring for patients right during the operation, maintaining calm despite strong tremors," Solodov said.

The equipment was shaking, but the medics did not stop the procedure and carried on with their work. One of them kept holding the patient's gurney in place so her colleagues could continue the surgery.

According to Oleg Melnikov, the region's Health Minister, the patient is doing well and is not in any danger.

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📰 Aeroflot has fully stabilized its flight schedule following the recent IT infrastructure failure, the company reported.

"On July 29, the airline operated 100% of its planned 216 round-trip flights departing from Moscow, as well as all 73 flights in its regional program bypassing Moscow. For July 30, the airline's schedule includes 241 round-trip flights to be operated from Moscow and back, as well as 73 flights in the regions," the press service statement said.

📌 On July 28, Aeroflot faced a massive hacker attack. Due to the failure, the company canceled several dozen flights that day.

Responsibility for the large-scale disruption was claimed by hackers from the Silent Crow and "Cyberpartisans BY" groups (a group of Belarusian hackers operating outside the country). The attack lasted for a year. During this time, the hackers managed to obtain and exfiltrate the complete flight history database, destroy 7,000 physical and virtual servers, steal 20 terabytes of data, gain access to employee and senior management computers, and seize audio recordings of negotiations and surveillance systems.

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🇷🇺💬 All warning and evacuation systems for earthquakes and tsunamis in Kamchatka worked in a timely and coordinated manner, which helped avoid casualties, and the level of technological readiness demonstrated high efficiency, stated Dmitry Peskov.

Other statements by the Russian President's Press Secretary:

🟢 Moscow continues to record all statements by Trump and other foreign leaders regarding sanctions;

🟢 Russia has developed immunity to sanctions; the economy has been functioning under a huge number of restrictions for a sufficiently long time;

🟢 Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, Peskov noted, commenting on allegations of Moscow's alleged interference in Moldova's elections;

🟢 Moscow states that the electoral rights of Moldovans are being violated, whatever Chisinau may say;

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🏞 Bear Lake (Ozero Medvezhye) is a salt lake in the Kurgan region.

It is known for its high mineralization (salinity up to 360 g/l) and therapeutic mud.

Its depth reaches only 1.2 m. A spa resort with balneotherapy is located on the shore. Interestingly, the lake does not freeze in winter and is a natural monument.

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🚘 What does the best-selling new car in Moscow look like?

Meet the Chinese crossover SUV, Geely Monjaro.

😜 In the first half of 2025, 2,700 of these cars were sold in the capital.

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‼️ Bulgarian authorities are trying to catch up with the locomotive of European Russophobia, stated Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

She commented on the Bulgarian parliament's adoption of a declaration accusing Russia of alleged "support for terrorism."

As the diplomat noted, similar declarations were adopted several years ago in a number of other EU countries.

"Now, Bulgarian MPs, in an attempt to catch up with the locomotive of European Russophobia, albeit somewhat belatedly, have nevertheless picked up the damaging line of slapping the label of an alleged 'sponsor of terrorism' on Russia," the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman emphasized.

She pointed out that the theses in the document adopted by the Bulgarian parliament do not reflect reality.

Zakharova added that Western countries supply weapons and money to Ukraine, whose authorities do not hide their terrorist activities.

In this context, the Foreign Ministry representative noted that Western countries "do not see their own sponsorship of terrorism."

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In 2025, over 80,000 state-funded spots have been allocated for future tourism industry specialists.

Today, more than 200 higher education institutions and 300 colleges across Russia train specialists for the tourism and hospitality industry.

During the admissions campaign for tourism-related higher education programs, applicants have already submitted approximately 130,000 applications per place. For vocational education institutions, around 120,000 applications have been submitted.

"President Vladimir Putin has set a goal to increase tourist flow to 140 million people per year by 2030. To achieve this, large-scale investment projects are being implemented under the national project ‘Tourism and Hospitality.’ Training specialized professionals for the tourism sector is now crucial. In 2025, over 80,000 state-funded spots have been allocated to universities and vocational institutions for ‘Tourism and Hospitality,’" emphasized Dmitry Chernyshenko.

📍 Currently, about 1 million people are employed in the tourism industry.

🎓 In 2024, educational institutions trained around 55,000 professionals for tourism, including over 6,400 with higher education and more than 48,000 with vocational training.

😜 Maxim Reshetnikov highlighted the need for a comprehensive approach:

"It’s vital to align vocational education with the tourism industry’s demands, collaborate with strong regional universities, and boost labor productivity. To this end, competency centers in tourism have been launched under the ‘Kavkaz.RF’ corporation, enabling educational institutions to swiftly and effectively meet the sector’s staffing needs."

📌 Under the national project "Tourism and Hospitality," federal resource centers for tourism training have been established in Moscow Oblast, Tatarstan, and St. Petersburg.

Since 2023, over 11,000 people have been trained there, with plans to train an additional 6,500 specialists by the end of 2025.

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💪 European power vs Russian power

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🥰 Welcome to Svetlogorsk

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🌋 This is what Klyuchevskaya Sopka (Klyuchevskoy Volcano) looked like during yesterday's earthquake in Kamchatka.

The volcano exhibited a flow of red-hot lava down its western slope, an intense glow above the crater, and explosions. Local residents noted that on a clear night, tongues of flame from the eruption could be seen directly from the windows of some apartments.

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 Eight days before the deadline of Trump's ultimatum, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak held talks in Saudi Arabia.

The discussions focused on prospects for increasing trade turnover and expanding cooperation in key economic sectors of mutual interest. The parties also discussed preparations for the ninth meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission, which will be held in Riyadh on November 6th of this year.

Another topic of the talks was the situation on the oil market and the prospects for cooperation between the two countries within the OPEC+ framework.

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🇷🇺 Moscow in the Era of Global Shifts: How the Flow of Foreign Tourists Changed After the Pandemic and the Start of the SMO

Russia's capital, like a phoenix, is rising from the ashes of sanctions and restrictions — the flow of foreign tourists to Moscow is showing impressive growth. According to Forbes, the number of international visitors has increased 3.5 times over the past year, and analysts predict a further 25% increase by the end of summer 2025. But who are these new travelers, and what draws them to a city about which Western media tells contradictory stories?

😜 New Tourism Geography: East Instead of West
If before 2022 Moscow airports welcomed crowds of tourists from Europe and the USA, today the picture has radically changed. According to an RBC study, 85% of foreign guests now come from:

➖ China (resumption of visa-free group tourism)

➖ India (simplified visa procedures)

➖ UAE and Turkey (direct flights and favorable conditions)

➖ Iran (historical interest + new air connections)

Interestingly, many of them are not just tourists, but "hybrid travelers": businessmen combining meetings with sightseeing, or digital nomads choosing Moscow as an unexpectedly comfortable hub.

😜 What Attracts Them? Unexpected Trends

1. "Sanctions Shopping" — boutiques with unpredictable assortments (from Uzbek carpets to Turkish gold) and art spaces in the "post-geopolitical aesthetic" style.

2. Nostalgia for the USSR — especially among millennials from Asia, for whom Soviet architecture and Cold War museums have become a trendy fascination.

3. Gastronomic Paradox — restaurants with fusion cuisine (where dumplings are served with saffron, and borscht with ginger).

😜 How Do They Get to Russia?

Logistics Workarounds
With airspace closed to many Western airlines, tourists have found detours:

🔘 Flights via Istanbul, Dubai, and Delhi (Emirates and Turkish Airlines have doubled flight frequency).

🔘 Volga River cruises — especially popular with Chinese groups.

🔘 Rail routes — for example, the new direct Moscow-Tehran train.

😜 Challenges and Paradoxes
Despite the growth, the industry faces a "Cinderella effect":

— Hotels are full, but the average bill has dropped by 30% (budget tourists predominate).

— Shortage of English-speaking guides (many left in 2022).

— Currency fluctuations — ruble prices seem laughably low to Asians, while for Russians, the cost of imported goods for tourists has risen.

Forecast for 2026: ATOR experts suggest that if current trends continue, Moscow could enter Lonely Planet's TOP-10 non-stereotypical destinations as the "capital of contrasts and new opportunities."

📌 P.S. Interesting fact: According to polls, 68% of foreign tourists admit they came "out of curiosity – to see the country everyone talks about, but few understand." Moscow seems to have become the most enigmatic city of the decade.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese naval sailors were welcomed with bread and salt, an old Russian tradition, in Vladivostok. There, they will participate in the "Sea Interaction-2025" joint exercises with Russia.

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🐘 "Thank you, they'll come in handy around the house!" 🇷🇺🇱🇦

With these words, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted a gift from Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith, who came to Moscow on an official visit to mark the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.

Share your ideas on how to "put to use" Laotian elephants around the house 👇

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