Russian TASS news agency reports that Rosturizm revoked the license of 19 Russian tour operators that were associated with the Turkish tourism market.
All of these tour operators are excluded from the federal registry number of legal entities, according to an official government order, published on the website Rostourism. In accordance with Russian legislation, they will not be able to conduct tour operator activities within the territory of Russia.
The text of the order to expel tour operators, as well as a list of legal entities, was tagged on website Rostourism website as “important” and included the following companies:
MW 1 008 121 LLC “Renaissance Property Management”
2 014 659 MW Ltd. “ATTIDA TRAVEL”
3 MT3 000,713 Ltd. “Pegasus Tours”
4 000 715 MT3 Ltd. “Pegasus Kazan”
5 MT3 000716 Ltd. “Pegasus Ufa”
6 000 770 MT3 Ltd. “Pegasus Yekaterinburg”
7 000 771 MT3 Ltd. “Pegasus Krasnodar”
8 001 216 MT3 Ltd. “Pegasus Samara”
9 001 217 MT3 Ltd. “Pegasus-KEMEROVO”
MT3 10 001 221 LLC “Pegas Perm”
MT3 11 002 880 Company “Pegasus Retail”
MT3 12 004 621 LLC “Pegas Khabarovsk”
MT3 13 004 699 LLC “Pegas Surgut”
MT3 14 010 433 LLC “Aneks Regions”
MT3 15 011 509 LLC “Anex Tour Moscow”
MT3 16 013 256 LLC “Bentur Moscow”
MT1 17 000717 LLC “Pegas Touristik”
MT1 18 000870 Company “Sanmar TOUR”
MT1 19 001 376 LLC “Coral Travel”
Broadened sanctions
Russia also broadened its sanctions against Turkey on Wednesday to bar new Turkish construction and curb tourism activities in Russia, an expansion of measures put in place last month after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane under disputed circumstances.
Turkish construction companies working on skyscrapers, soccer stadiums and other projects in Russia can continue, but Turkish businesses will be prohibited from signing new contracts after Jan. 1.
The exemption for all current contracts seemed to reflect that the Russians will go only so far in limiting Turkey’s activities here for fear of being left with no roofs over their heads.
Turkish companies are participating in all aspects of Russia’s infrastructure development, including the construction of stadiums for the 2018 World Cup soccer championship. In fact, it was a Turkish firm that in the 1990s refurbished the very government building where the Russian cabinet met this week to adopt the new sanctions.
Popular destination
The new restrictions prohibit firms owned or based in Turkey from “activities in architecture, engineering, technical testing” of buildings. The expanded sanctions also prohibit Turkish citizens or companies from operating tourism agencies in Russia. Turkey is a popular destination for Russian tourists.
The ban is the latest in Russia’s escalating trade disputes with countries it is at odds with on foreign policy, which include members of the European Union and former Soviet states like Georgia and Ukraine.
After Turkey shot down a Russian jet in November, asserting it had crossed into Turkish airspace from Syria, President Vladimir V. Putin canceled energy projects, banned fruit and vegetable imports and hinted at more retribution to come.
Putin address to Parliament
“We shall remind them many a time what they have done and they will more than once feel regret for what they have done,” Mr. Putin said this month in an address to Parliament.
On Dec. 9, Russia’s state nuclear company, Rosatom, suspended work on a $20 billion nuclear power plant in Akkuyu, Turkey.
Russia is the largest market for Turkish exports after Germany, with about $6 billion worth of goods in 2014, or 4 percent of all exports. And it was the biggest source of Turkish imports in 2014, with $25 billion or 10 percent of total goods, according to an analysis by Renaissance Capital.
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