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Preparing for the holiday season

December 24, 2011 Inna Leonova, Diana Laarz
When you’ve taken down the tinsel and started your January diet, Moscow’s Orthodox Nativity celebrations are in full swing

Grandfather Frost cashes in

December 21, 2011 Olga Dmitrieva, Inna Leonova, Alexandra Guzeva
Once a Soviet trade unionist, Ded Moroz can now earn $4,700 in two hours with a little help from his attractive granddaughter

Contradicting stereotypes

November 10, 2011 Inna Leonova
Moscow has struggled to overcome its Soviet reputation, but contemporary visitors and residents alike find much to love

The flexible e-textbook of the future

September 29, 2011 Inna Leonova
British and Russian firms join forces to develop a tough e-reader for schoolchildren that bends like a book

Bigger families to be given free land

June 30, 2011 Inna Leonova
As the number of childless couples grows, parents are being offered an incentive to defy the Soviet stigma surrounding larger families

Visas: the biggest tourist trap of all

June 28, 2011 Inna Leonova
Delays in issuing visas 
and poor promotion of Russia as a destination are blamed for disappointing tourist figures

New law grants teaching rights to foreigners

April 20, 2011 Inna Leonova
Foreigners who enter the country on assorted regular travel visas are granted the right to teach without additional permission

Registration rules eased for foreigners

March 30, 2011 Inna Leonova
President Dmitry Medvedev signed into law changes that allow foreigners up to seven business days (up from the current three) to stay in the country without registering