“If you want to study for life, go to university; if you want to get a profession that will give you the opportunity to work and earn a decent living, go to college,” says Dr. Rick Miner, president…
I would like to tell readers about a somewhat forgotten page in the history of the return of Russian Germans to Germany. It has not only historical significance but also a certain legal significance…
"If we wanted to ruin our service, we would announce that our hotel operates on an all inclusive basis," say top managers of elite European hotels. What should you expect from an all inclusive tour…
“Tunisia for $555”, “Egypt for $350”, “All of Italy for 1,000 euros” - such advertisements fill promotional brochures. We are accustomed to perceiving the cost of a tour as a single and indivisible…
Will Czechia dissolve?
A correspondent visited the largest country in Africa, where for some reason it is not recommended to go. Perhaps because it is difficult for a European, accustomed to living by the clock, to find…
Having converted to Islam, Tatyana surprised everyone: her atheist parents, her older sister, who is a Jehovah's Witness, neighbors, and friends. Four years ago she graduated from Kharkiv State…
"Zagranitsa" often recounts the lives and problems that immigrants from countries of the former Soviet Union encounter in the Czech Republic. We again turn to this topic thanks to Radio Prague, whose…
The currently pressing problem of the dominance of football legionnaires (experienced by almost all countries of the world) was known to few in our country a decade and a half ago (and even then…
Like every self-confident beauty, Prague has the ability to charm its guests, writes Voyage and Rest. And age is no obstacle. There are no boring routes in Prague. Walking through it is the only and…
At the end of summer, a seminar of the Consortium of Czech non-governmental organizations specializing in helping refugees and emigrants took place in Prague. As Radio Prague reports, the range of…
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the claim of Russian citizen Tatyana Slivenko, who was illegally deported from Latvia. Now the authorities of that country must pay her 20,000 euros and…
THE AVERAGE SALARY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC is 18,133 crowns per month (approximately $600). Such are the data of the Czech Statistical Office based on the results of last year. Moreover, men receive…
Five years after the landmark ruling on the class action lawsuit by Holocaust victims claiming rights to lost or stolen Nazi-era accounts in Swiss banks, a court-appointed monitor says many survivors…
Lately, thanks to the efforts of some mass media, news has spread that German higher education may soon become fee-based, writes 'Inostranets'. Last week, the editorial office even received several…
Employees of the Luhansk regional administration of the Security Service of Ukraine uncovered an organized criminal group that was involved in the illegal sending of Ukrainians to Israel. As reported…
We continue our series of publications for those applying to foreign universities. So, if you already know what documents are required, it's time to figure out how and when to send them. First of…
Thai cuisine is unlike any other, even the cuisine of its neighbors - Vietnamese, Malay, Khmer, Cantonese and Sichuan. Moreover, not a single Thai dish has been borrowed by other peoples, and not a…
At a press conference held last week, Lufthansa announced its results for nine months of the current year, presented the winter schedule and announced a new business class concept on long-haul routes.
In 'Zagranitsa' No. 43 (October 2003), the US State Department's instructions for participants of the American Green Card visa lottery (DV-2005) and answers to the most common questions were…
The editors asked me to comment from a lawyer's perspective on two cases of expulsion from Germany that attracted public attention, involving former citizens of the USSR who lived in Germany for many…
Viktor Skripnik, a native of Novomoskovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, ended up in Bremen back in 1996, through the patronage of Bernd Stange, a German who coached Dnipropetrovsk's 'Dnipro'…
Due to the increasing difficulty of obtaining visas to Schengen countries, most of the surplus labor force has rushed to the near abroad - Russia. And this is natural: this country is close, we have…
Preparing for a trip to Hamburg, I read a lot of interesting things on the Internet about this city, its history and attractions. To my surprise, I discovered that this northern city is the second…