Finding budget accommodation in Moscow is a real challenge as the city tops the rating of European capitals with the most expensive hotel rooms.
The average cost for a room in Moscow hotel grew 8.5% to $248 comparing to 2010, according to the data prepared by Hotels.info. The city has almost 250 hotels with 37,500 rooms with the 3-star rooms making up 42% of the market. Even though they can’t qualify as budget since the average price of those rooms is more than $200 per day.
According to the leading construction companies in Moscow, the city lacks some 30,000 to 40,000 cheap hotel rooms. Moscow authorities plan to attract private investors to tackle the issue.
Meanwhile travellers in other European capitals also face difficulties in trying to find cheap bed-in-breakfast in these cities. Oslo in Norway took second place in the list as the average cost for a room was up almost 6% to $225. London took third place, followed by Stockholm and Kiev, while Copenhagen, Paris, Helsinki and Amsterdam round out the top ten.
As for the rest of the world, New York tops the list as the most expensive destinations with its $275 per room.
The Battle of Moscow, which took place 70 years ago, on December 5th 1941, marked a special chapter in the history of the Great Patriotic War waged on the territory of Russia and the Second World War. After easily marching through a string of European countries for two years, the Nazi army suffered a crushing defeat at the approaches to Moscow. The legend of the Wehrmacht’s invincibility crumbled in one day. The Voice of Russia’s Mikhail Aristov has more details.
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Foreign monitors positively evaluate the work of voting stations at the elections for Russia`s State Duma, lower house of parliament, the chairman of the Russian public institute of electoral law Igor Borisov told reporters Sunday…
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Imposing ban on oil imports from Iran will lead to the increase of global oil prices up to $250 per barrel…
That seems to be the head lines today on this Sunday of elections. Actually the Iran and oil issue is keeping people busy until around 9 pm tonight when the news says we can start getting some results in from the counts…
So have a good day everyone and see you next week…
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Fulfilling a contract signed in 2007, Russia has supplied Bastion coastal missile systems with Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria under a contract signed in 2007, a diplomatic source in Moscow has told Russian media. Objecting to Western fears that the defensive weapons system will fall into the hands of terrorist groups, a diplomatic source says that Moscow has fulfilled its obligations as laid out in the five-year-old contract…
This is a good thing because these missiles are designed to strike at warships trying to attack Syria. If Libya had these, then it would have been a different war. These cruise missiles can easily take out a carrier or battleship. This is a coastal defense system…
I cross my fingers and hope that these do not have to be used but then they will not have to be used if the western Empire keeps her nose at home where it belongs. If these are used against the West then I realize that World War III is starting…
Russia did the right thing this time as she messed up when it came to Iran and missile defense. Lets hope that the West does not give Syria the chance to try these missiles out on her warships…
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