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...Intourist provides a wide range of trips into Sakhalin's interior, an area few non-Russians have ever seen. Activities include visiting indigenous tribes and, for Russo-Japanese War buffs, the 50th parallel, the former demarcation line between Russian-held northern Sakhalin and Japanese-controlled southern Sakhalin...
...overpowering visitors with their intoxicating scents, a welcome change from the dusty streets of Yuzhno. For those who would rather hunt wildlife than simply admire it, Sakhalin has large brown bear and Manchurian deer populations. Autumn is the main hunting season, and permits for firearms are available through Intourist. It also arranges a five-day fishing trip on the Chamga River during the salmon spawning season, all-inclusive for about $750. For those with a bigger budget, Intourist can organize a summer fishing vacation to the remote Vengery River by helicopter. It beats driving...
...block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After the attack, we journalists spread out across the city, fearing a KGB round up (staff at our Intourist hotel had warned us), and took refuge in the apartments of local people, who took us in without question. There, a few nights after the massacre, I watched Gorbachev talk vaguely but ominously on TV of the need to introduce controls over the media. Gorbachev's performance that January sealed...
Scheduled next for the auction block are Intourist hotels, state-owned hard- currency shops and 5,600 major factories, including the Vladimir tractor factory in central Russia...
...glasnost, officials have at last decided to introduce new maps of Moscow, which will include about 90% of the city's streets. The revised maps come just in time. Warming relations between East and West have brought a flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that...