Chinese tourists top number of trips to Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Tourists from China topped the number of foreign visitor trips to Russia in the first nine months of this year, Russian media RBC reported on Friday.

In the nine-month period, the Russian Federal Security Service's border service registered 429,100 foreign tourist trips to the country, and 105,800 of them were made by Chinese citizens, the report said.