It looks like the most comfortable way to get my wife and her daughter from Taskent to Houston is to first fly them to Moscow, let them stay there overnight, and then fly to Houston the next day with a connection in Frankfurt.
Can anyone recommend a nice hotel in Moscow, preferably near the airport. Also, I know when I went to Warsaw last year there was an agency (I think some sort of government sponsored tourist agency) that I went through and got room rates much cheaper than those available to my travel agent. Is there something similar in Russia?