Ural Airlines is about to launch a direct scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to one of Azerbaijan’s most economically advanced cities Lenkoran, the airline’s press officer reports. Starting November 24, 2011, flights to Lenkoran will be operated from Saint Petersburg every Thursday. The cheapest one-way tickets can be bought for ?80. Lenkoran is a large seaport in Azerbaijan, located on the coast of the Caspian Sea, as well as a famous tourist attraction. This is why the flight is definitely going to be popular. This is actually the second flight from Saint Petersburg to Azerbaijan Ural

Three new Cyprus visa centers will soon be set up in Russian provinces, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cyprus to Russia Petros Kestoras says. Until recently, Russian subjects could only obtain visas to enter Cyprus in the consulates in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Now they will also be able to apply to visa centers in Yekaterinburg, Samara, and Krasnodar. ‘We have already obtained the permission of the Russian authorities to open these representations,’ the Association of Russian Tour Operators’ website quotes the ambassador as saying. Russia is actually