(AFP) - Russia is striving to
bring back nearly 16,000 tourists stranded abroad after the latest in a
string of travel companies failed amid strains over the crisis in
Ukraine, tourism officials said Monday.With Western
sanctions threatening to tip Russia's ailing economy into a recession
and the value of the ruble taking a beating, the number of Russians
travelling abroad has been cut by as much as half, according to industry
sources.
The Labirint
(Labyrinth) company announced Saturday it had halted operations, leaving
27,000 Russians "abroad without return tickets,"