Intourist

Pair jailed for bombing
Waikato Times; 12/10/2009; 272 words; ...convicted two men of bombing a shopping arcade and hotel in 1999 and sentenced them to prison. An explosion in an elevator of the Intourist hotel in downtown Moscow injured 11 people in April 1999. Four months later, one woman died and 40 people were injured in...

Russia court imprisons 1999 bombers of hotel, mall
AP Worldstream; 12/9/2009; 479 words; ...bombing a shopping arcade and hotel in 1999, and sentenced them to long prison terms. An explosion in an elevator of the Intourist hotel in downtown Moscow injured 11 people in April 1999. The hotel has since been demolished. Four months later, one woman...

My glimpse of a Russia before she got BMWs; In a blitz of Moscow and St Petersburg, Maxine Jones peeks behind the shroud of a proud nation.(Features)
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 12/6/2009; 1425 words; ...hard to describe the traffic jams,' lamented Tatiana our Intourist guide as we headed for the centre. 'Ten million people a...year. The sky was clear and the Winter Palace sparkled. The Intourist guide here was Marina, whose father had been in the military...

Sordid elements of the liberation struggle revealed.(Entertainment)
The Star (South Africa); 11/26/2009; 953 words; ...murderous collectivisation policy. Trewhela describes how two young Rhodes scholars (Oxford 1931) travelled on a four-week Intourist journey to the Soviet Union in 1932. One, New Zealander Geoffrey Cox, saw and understood and described the "State-enforced...

Fuel for thought
New Statesman; 11/2/2009; 1066 words; ...journey upriver in the Niger Delta, past hideously polluted swamps and Shell's Potemkin villages; in Azerbaijan, the Intourist hotel in Baku in the 1990s; the D aura refinery in Baghdad; a Lukoil board meeting in Moscow; an oil-company town in...