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Old Jan 12, 2020 | 11:03 pm
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Originally Posted by luitje
Thanks - great to know, but I don't think Russia cares about tourism at all (from what I know travel and tourism share in GDP is less than 5% and most of it is from local travel). That's why silly visa restrictions and very few international flights to cities other than Moscow.
Our power holding people are not interested in developing small businesses as its difficult to manage (ie control) those, this is where it comes from. The economy would be happy to get any extra sources of income to develop.
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