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16 Feb 2012 | Partnership with Talgo

Russian Railways has reached an agreement with Spanish railway company Talgo, to develop a new train made specially for Russia.

Russian Railways is planning international expansion, in order to make this process easier, a new gauge system is being implemented, which will allow Russian trains to travel more easily to Europe.

Russian Railways is currently in the process of upgrading the Russian railway system in order to decrease the travel time between cities. A plan was recently announced to build new high-speed track between Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as between Moscow and Ekaterinburg.

Several works of the famous Italian master from the 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio will soon be on display in Moscow at the State Pushkin Museum. Caravaggio was a baroque master who transformed European painting.

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26 Oct 2011 | Moscow to Riga Faster

Russian Railways is planning to reduce the time taken to travel between Moscow and Riga. The new trip will be a comfortable 10-12 hr overnight trip, whereas the current trip takes 16 hrs.

The French company Alstom Transport, in cooperation with TransMashHolding and Russian Railways, will help to modernize Russia's ailing railways. The companies have already signed a number of deals to produce electric trains to be used for both passengers and cargo. Alstom is the same company that recently presented Russian Railways with the Allegro high-speed train, currently traveling between St. Petersburg and Helsinki.

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27 Sep 2011 | Bering Strait Tunnel

Earlier this month the Russian government approved plans to build a tunnel connecting Russia with North America through the Bering Strait! The plans for the project will make the Bering Strait the longest tunnel in the world!

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14 Sep 2011 | Baikal Economic Forum

The Baikal Economic Forum in Irkutsk, Siberia has kicked off for the seventh time to bring together politicians and businessmen.

Russia is planning to upgrade the railway system by introducing European style two-storied trains for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The trains will accommodate more people and take fans to matches and events.

Rosatom is sponsoring a mobile exhibition on technological innovation housed on a train that will travel around Russia. The train recently left Moscow equipped with an exhibition and lecture complex to demonstrate innovative projects.

South-Caucasian Railways (SCR) offers a new train from Batumi to Sochi. Passengers can now travel from Yerevan to Batumi and continue on to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi in southern Russia.

Russian Rail is planning to build a new high-speed train by 2030 that will travel at a speed of 1,000 km/hr, taking passengers from Moscow to Vladivostok in just 7 hours!

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1 Jun 2011 | Allegro Train Travel

Train travel between St. Petersburg and Helsinki has increased due to the new Allegro trains. Recently the number of trains was increased from two per day to four per day.

When speaking about train travel, specifically long haul train holidays, the Trans-Siberian Express journey from Moscow to Vladivostok is in a class of it own. The beautiful cities, nature, culture and history along the way make it the best train journey in the world.

There is a new special tourist train on the Trans-Siberian Railway scheduled to start this summer. The new train will go from Moscow to Bejing on the Trans-Mongolian route, which is one of the world's longest railroads.

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