Russians staying home for football festival while the country also sees as influx of visitors who might otherwise come to Thailand
Hotel occupancy down to average 50% in third quarter, with 'sharp drop' in Russian arrivals.
Tourist chiefs in Thailand have stressed the importance to them of visitors from the eastern regions of Russia.
Dream holiday ruined by attack on remote road, but perpetrators caught.
Beijing proposes tours to neighbouring Khabarovsk region which wind the clock back to the Communist era.
More than 400 volunteers from across Russia on Sunday cleaned up the world famous lake.
More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.
'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.