As Southeast Asia and the Middle East became a routine and Western Europe seems far and expensive, Indian tourists may look at Russia as a fanciful mixture of European and Asian cultures and a considerably cheap way of spending a holiday.
Official statistics of the Russian tourism ministry show that in the first 9 months of 2012 the number of Indian tourists coming to Russia doubled from the same period the previous year. “From 2007 to 2011 the number of Indians visiting Moscow remained constant, about 35 000 each year. In 2012 it grew to 47,500. India is ranked 16 in the list of countries whose citizens are visiting Russia,” says Olesia Aliferenko, from the International Department of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism.
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