During the election campaign, the Conservative Party promised to slow the pace of immigration from outside the European Union 'from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands per year' by 2015 – and…
The 'nationality' field appeared in domestic document flow more than a hundred years ago. Lenin first used it in questionnaires for members of the Bolshevik Party before October 1917. Stalin…
On the evening of September 11, 2001, similar emails started coming from Ukraine: reply, what's happening there, are you okay? All my friends, by a fateful coincidence, did well in school and, of…
The first Christmas tree on Athens' central square was lit long before Christmas. On the night of December 9, in the midst of mass pogroms, it was set on fire by anarchists and sympathetic youth…
Deputies of the Landtag of Lower Saxony (Germany) are the only parliamentarians in the world working under the coat of arms of a foreign state. The lion and unicorn, which are components of the coat…
Last year, the population of the Republic of Montenegro decided in a national referendum that henceforth this small country would exist as an independent state. Another piece of the composite…
Russia has made access to the Strasbourg court difficult not only for its own citizens but also for other Europeans. On December 20, the State Duma rejected a bill on ratifying Protocol No. 14 to the…
Xenophobia in all its forms is primarily a social phenomenon, and therefore it is in principle impossible to overcome it by repressive methods alone. The most convincing evidence of this is the…
Eastern European governments have been deceiving their populations for many years in order to join the European Union. Now it's time to face the truth. Eastern Europeans have clearly failed in their…
The UN Security Council approved a new Secretary-General of the United Nations – as expected, it was South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon. With his assumption of office on January 1, 2007, an…
U.S. President George Bush personally put an end to a long and rather tedious detective story called "The Mexican Wall." After he signed the corresponding bill, a thousand-kilometer fence will be…
Recently, a very telling incident occurred, which greatly amused the public. A Northwest Airlines aircraft flying from Amsterdam to Mumbai (now the name for Bombay) turned around a few kilometers…