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Thank you Elina, I imagined that this was the case !! If I get done with the passport and visa, I expect to be staying at the Royal Meridien National in Moscow and the Astoria in St. Petersburg. Have you any reference on these hotels that you can let me have ?? Thanks once again.

I know that last year when President Bush was in St Petersburg he stayed at the Astoria Hotel, it is located right next to St Isaac's Cathedral.

Le Royal Meridien National, 5 star, offers a comfortable, quiet and secure accommodation in the very centre of the Russian capital, and is only a short stroll from the Kremlin, Red Square and the Bolshoy Theatre.
The hotel was built in 1903 by a famous Russian architect, was fully renovated in 1991-1995, and features superb views of the Red Square and the Kremlin from the restaurant.