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Aeroflot began using Terminal C facilities for its international flights at Moscow-Sheremetievo International Airport, its main hub, on 23 July. The decision to transfer all flights to the newest terminal coincides with a strong upturn in traffic. The terminal has a capacity of 20 million passengers...

The Accor group has just made official the Russian ambitions of the Raffles brand. The brand is preparing to make its big debut in Russia, with the opening of the Raffles Moscow hotel, scheduled for the second half of 2022. The new luxury hotel will be located right in the heart of the capital, next to the Kremlin - with its...

A top destination for business travellers and a brand renowned in the upmarket hotel segment: the marriage between So/ and Moscow was inevitable. It will be celebrated in 2023, with the inauguration of the SO/Moscow in the Dorogomilovo district, just two minutes from Kutuzov Avenue, five years after...

"You can't be and have been. Well, you can! All over the world, the world's major business cities are putting the popular saying to rest. What were the key metropolises at the end of the 19th century? New York and Chicago in the United States, London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow in Europe, Tokyo in Asia,...

The spectacular crash of Aeroflot's Sukhoi 100, which crashed during an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, killed more than 40 people. The exact circumstances surrounding the accident - there is talk of lightning striking the aircraft - and the rescue operations are certain to further damage Aeroflot's reputation...

Nice has never seemed so close to Moscow. From 1 May, Ural Airlines' A321-200s will be landing on the Côte d'Azur airport tarmac. The Russian carrier will operate two flights a week between Nice and Moscow Zhukovsky airport, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A breath of fresh air for a saturated Northern European sky The airport...

Business travel between France and Moscow is definitely on a roll. And Marseille in particular. Almost a month after announcing an expanded programme between Paris and Moscow - and just a few days after Aeroflot unveiled its plans for Marseille - Aigle Azur has just outlined its ambitions for the route linking the Cité Phocéenne to...

On 2 June, Brussels Airlines will be leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport, which the airline has been serving for some fifteen years now. However, the Lufthansa Group carrier is not deserting the Russian capital. Quite the contrary: it intends to bring business travellers closer to their final destination by transferring its operations to Sheremetyevo International Airport,...

From 1 June, Aeroflot will be operating no fewer than five weekly services between Marseille Provence and Moscow-Cheremetievo. The flight schedule includes services every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and tickets are now on sale. "We are particularly pleased to welcome Aeroflot, Russia's leading airline", says Jean-Louis Besson, CEO of Aeroflot.

One year after the launch of its service between Paris-Orly and Moscow-Domodedovo, Aigle Azur will be adding new frequencies for the 2018-19 winter season. The two flights a week currently offered will be joined by a third weekly frequency from 26 December 2018, then a fourth from 4 March 2019. All in all, the route...

Aigle Azur, France's second-largest airline, has ambitious expansion targets. "We've spent seven months working on our turnaround, putting our organisation and our model to the test," describes Frantz Yvelin, Chairman of the airline. 2018 is the year in which we reinvent ourselves with the aim of being a hybrid carrier, with a 'low fare' strategy but...

With the inauguration, within a few days of each other, of hotels in Moscow and Madrid, the Hyatt group has just strengthened its offer in two of Europe's key business metropolises. To make its debut in Madrid - and indeed on the Spanish market - the American hotelier has chosen its lifestyle brand Hyatt Centric and has opted for a prime location for its...

IDENTITY CARD Currency: rouble (RUB). 1 euro = RUB 70.5 (Nov. 2017) Area code: +7 (Russia); 495 (Moscow). Time difference: +2h. GETTING THERE AIR FRANCE operates four daily flights from Paris CDG to Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, code-sharing with AEROFLOT. For its part, the Russian airline, a member of Skyteam, offers five daily services,...

"City is the body that, like Epad at La Défense, will manage the operation of the new business district and its economic activities", explains its very young vice-president, Dmitri Grandkin. The aim is to turn this site, which is still under construction, into a high-flying business district within the next three to five years. Created in 1992 to...

"There isn't one Russia, there are three," says Pavel Chinsky, director of the French Chamber of Commerce in Moscow. "The 'Russia of the dollar king', with a dozen or so cities of more than a million inhabitants served by airports, stocked with large foreign retailers and mainly inhabited by expatriates. Then "The...