RUSSIA: Crimes Against Foreigners Very Rare In Moscow, Committee For Tourism Industry

Crimes perpetrated against outside sightseers in the Russian capital are extraordinarily uncommon, Moscow’s Committee for Tourism and Hotel Industry head Sergei Shpilko said Monday.

“Consistently we get data… on what number of crimes acts were conferred against outside sightseers. In the most recent two years – 2012 and 2013 – there were 32 such episodes, every one of them were not grave, with the exception of only one,” Shpilko said in London at the World Travel Market (WTM), a three-day universal toll.

He additionally included that such a low wrongdoing rate is unique to that of some other real city on the planet, for example, Moscow.

The quantity of travelers staying in lodgings and inns in Moscow has been at just about 6 million for the recent years, as per authority facts.