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Dana is a Travel Tomorrow reporter. She graduated in Political Science and International Relations. She moved to Brussels from Romania for her studies and Mont des Arts made her fall in love with the city and remain here. She loves animals, especially dogs, and everything food related, but dessert most of all.

13 September 2023

Russia seeks visa-free travel agreements with more countries around the world

In several separate announcements from earlier this week, Russia has revealed it is planning on introducing visa-free travel from more countries across the world. One of […]
23 August 2023

Disruption at Moscow airports following drone attacks

Russia closed the airspace above its capital on the morning of Tuesday 22 August 2023 after Ukrainian drones were detected around 25km northwest of Moscow. “Two […]
21 August 2023

Russia’s Aeroflot issues safety warning about fleets’ worn-out brakes

In a further sign of a country looking like it’s in crisis, Russia’s flagship air carrier, Aeroflot, is reportedly operating “at least nine planes without brakes” […]
21 August 2023

Russia’s Luna 25 crashes into moon and ‘ceases to exist’

On Friday 18 August, I was scheduled to write a piece about Russia’s first space mission to the moon for nearly 50 years, for publication on […]
8 August 2023

Putin’s promised prosperity fails to materialise as war destroys Crimean tourist sector

Crimea’s tourism sector is facing another hard summer, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. Last year’s first summer of war in Ukraine saw Crimean tourism […]
2 June 2023

Russia’s Aeroflot to resume flights with Cuba as of July 1

Russia and Cuba have a long history of diplomatic relations and cooperation dating back to the Cold War.  1. Russia-Cuba Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Chernishenko […]
18 April 2023

Large increase in passengers for Russian airlines expected this year

The aviation industry came to almost a complete stop when the pandemic began, but while most countries started recovering in 2022, Russia still lagged behind due […]
20 March 2023

Russia to spend $3.9 billion for acquiring foreign leased aircraft

On March 15th, authorities in Russia announced that they had allocated about 300 billion rubles (about $3.9 billion) to buy aircraft from foreign leasing companies. The […]
2 March 2023

Rich Russians “travelled with a vengeance” post-pandemic, despite war

Despite the war in Ukraine and looming economic crisis, rich Russians returned “to international travel with a vengeance post-pandemic”, revealed an analysis from ForwardKeys. Over the […]
10 February 2023

Investigators link Putin to 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine

On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine. […]
29 September 2022

Russia says goodbye to Airbus and Boeing

Russia has announced that it want to produce 1,000 passenger aircraft by 2030 using locally made parts, state technology company Rostec told Reuters on Wednesday September […]
26 September 2022

Military mobilisation in Russia could leave aviation industry without staff

One-way flights from Russia quickly sold out last week after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered on 21 September the immediate call-up of up to 300,000 reservists. […]
23 September 2022

Russian pilots no longer allowed to train in Türkiye

After the war broke out in Ukraine, countries around the world took action and started sanctioning Russia. The restrictions include banning Russian aircraft from EU and USA airspace, […]
22 September 2022

Demand for flights leaving Russia skyrockets after Putin calls up 300,000 reservists

One-way flights from Russia quickly sold out on Wednesday September 21st after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of up to 300,000 reservists. Putin’s […]
7 September 2022

The European Commission wants to fully ban Russian Citizens’ access to the EU

Today, the European Commission is proposing to fully suspend the EU’s Visa Facilitation Agreement with Russia. A country like Russia, waging a war of aggression, should not qualify for visa […]
15 August 2022

Russian woman harasses Ukrainians in Austria and becomes the most hated tourist in Europe

A Russian woman has caused commotion on social media after she filmed herself mocking and harassing Ukrainian women in Salzburg, Austria. The woman, allegedly identified as […]