Sergey Kyuregyan, a 35-year-old manager of a Moscow energy company, decided to forgo a European ski vacation this winter and travel to the Black Sea instead. "I wanted to spend my vacation in Russia," he said, explaining that in the past he'd gone to Switzerland, Austria and Italy. "I decided that I would go skiing in Sochi."
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Bloomberg: Russians hit by ruble crisis skip St. Moritz to stay home
In St. Moritz, which in the course of the 20th century counted Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the Shah of Iran among its famous guests, the local tourism board expects a decline in the number of Russian visitors this winter.
