The new rules for obtaining Shengen visas come into operation this April. The new visa codex of the EU countries supposes that the application form becomes longer and include more questions, including one about the fingerprints.

The service of free Wi-Fi net access is available for the passengers of Terminal F of the Moscow airport of Sheremetyevo. The service is to be used after the Passport check and other formalities, in the sterile area, where the passengers wait for the enplaning.

A Latvia citizen was arrested yesterday, on the March, 10, in the airport of Pulkovo, St. Petersburg. He has flown in from Dominican Republic with a suitcase, where about 13 kilos cocaine was detected.

The Moscow airport of Sheremetyevo became the second place after the Moscow Kremlin, where professional and unprofessional photography was allowed. Earlier taking was prohibited photos in the places like these.

A group of tourists from Belarus was covered by an avalanche in the mountains of the Lovozero Massif in the Murmansk Region. The list of the missing tourists is published on the web-site of the MES Department of the Murmansk Region. Two persons from the group managed to get off.

The Georgian Air Company Airzena-Georgian Airways has requested clearance for carrying out extra charter direct flights between Tbilisi and Moscow. According to the air company, the request for carrying out flights in the spring season is already made, but the press relation service of the Georgian Ministry of Transport could not affirm it.

The schedule of the high-speed railway service on the Sapsan trains between Moscow and St. Petersburg is going to become tighter. The Sapsans are to run between the Russian capitals 5 times a day instead of three ones since April.

The passengers of Air France and British Airways air carriers can check in online for the flights from St. Petersburg (Pulkovo airport).

Russia is treating to ban the flights of the air carrier of Austrian Airlines to Russia. The problem is that the block of shares of Austria Airlines was bought by Lufthansa (Germany).

The Air Company S7 Airlines has announced beginning of self-check in for all its international services. The passengers can do it online or in the check-in kiosks if their airport of departure is Domodedovo. Earlier the CUSS Kiosks and online check in were available for the domestic flights’ passengers of the air carrier.