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Russian Tourists Insist on Staying in Egypt Despite Warning

   Albina Kovalyova | Moscow  February 01, 2011
   Tourists  ride  camels  near the pyramids, in Giza, Egypt, January 31,
   2011. The pyramids are closed to tourists.

Photo: AP

   Tourists  ride  camels  near the pyramids, in Giza, Egypt, January 31,
   2011. The pyramids are closed to tourists.

   The  Russian  government has issued a travel warning concerning Egypt,
   and  Russian  firms  have  started  to  evacuate their staff. But many
   Russian  tourists have flatly refused to change their plans. Egypt has
   been  hit  with a wave of violence following mass protests against the