Russia before was known as Soviet Union or USSR for Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Later the great country is known as CIS for Commonwealth of Independence States which covers Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Kirgiztan, Tadzhikistan, Kazakhstan, Belorussia, and Lithuania. This commonwealth is the largest area of the world stretching from Ukraine which is bordering with Poland on East Europe up to the Bering strait bordering with Alaska, the area of USA.lThe population are concentrated on the area of CIS members states and around Moscow and along trans Siberian area until Vladivostok near North Korea. Within Russia itself, although Russia practiced communism as the philosophy of their nation in the past, but their development in technology has not been over passed by any nation in Europe, except USA, especially in military and space technology. Many scientists are also born in russia. Both Russia and the Ukraine as the CIS members, just starting to explore tourism as the trade. Cities such as Saint Petersburg which is known as the Venice of Russia is the most beautiful city in Europe and northern territory. After the fall of communism some parts of Moscow also find itself as an interesting place for foreign visitors beside their specific nature views and skiing sites. For Russia the name of Saint Petersburg which is known also as Leningrad is the best architectural show case in the area. The town which was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 from a rock ( petra ) a city of pink granite quays dotted with Italian palaces. The palace of Empress Catherine at Tsarkoye Selo, the majestic Neva, and Winter palace were the work of Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The impressive Saint Isaac Cathedral, Petrodvorets Summer Palace with its cascades and countless fountains and maritime canals which joins up with nearby gulf of Finland. This is the only small part of Russian interesting for tourists. Many inbound tour operators in Moscow also offers various tour arrangements and hotel reservation to main cities and destinations in Russia. Some type of tour arrangements besides hotel reservation, general travel services are also can be found via internet such as skiing, flight tickets, transport, and many other travel services. Kiev as the capital city of Ukraine also offer great choice of travel services, from hotel reservation, tour arrangements, and other travel related services. Kiev as the capital city of Ukraine and member state of the CIS has good position in East Europe in competing their partner of West Europe by the heritages of old age building, interesting natural views and specific life style of the people of Ukraine.

Indonesia Original Textile Indonesia textiles can be identified from variety of fabrics, materials, making technique or process, color and motifs of those textiles. In general, we can classified it into three major groups. * "Ikat" weaving. "Ikat" means to tie or bind, is used as the name for intricately patterned cloth which threads is made in many regions of the archipelago, from Sumatera to Maluku and Nusa Tenggara. It is an ancient art from tribes of Indonesia which has a strong ethnic identification. "Songket" is an original Indonesian cloth with silk fabric as the based, and is patterned with gold threads although these days imitative silver or gold is often used. See more