According to Kommersant and RBC, the government instructed the Mintsifira and Rostourism to develop a domestic service for booking hotels. It will be similar to Booking.com and Airbnb, which stopped their work in the country in early March.

Airbnb suspended operations in Russia on March 4. At the same time, Booking.com stopped working in Russia - accommodations in the Russian Federation are not displayed when searching.

The domestic online hotel booking service will be based on the already working developments that exist in the country, for example, the Russian Railways service - Travel.rzd. This project will be launched under the current sanctions and for the development of domestic tourism.

In early February, the media reported that the Ministry of Digital Transformation would start creating the Russian analogue of Github in May of this year. It is likely that the previously announced time frame for the process of creating this project will be revised after the introduction of new sanctions in late February and early March.

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