The United States of America is the world leader in admitting students from abroad. More than 580,000 foreigners receive education there. They are attracted by the huge selection of educational…
Recently, advertisements from various firms have increasingly appeared in the press, offering our fellow citizens “legal immigration to America,” “100% employment in the USA,” or even simply…
An army in high-tech style is preparing for war in the Middle East: new technologies have permeated literally every cell of the American armed forces. In one of his recent speeches, George Bush…
What should be the very first steps to take on the path to a German university? What do you need to know before joining the ranks of the colorful, noisy, and international student body here?
The Lithuanian Seimas is preparing to consider a bill to legalize the traditional local craft of moonshining. As Gazeta.Ru reports, the former president of Lithuania did not approve such initiatives…
In Italy, the grand opening of a monument to the country's former currency, the lira, took place. The ceremony was conducted by film star Sophia Loren.
St. Petersburg has a unique destiny. For more than two hundred years it was the capital of a vast empire, situated on its very outskirts. Over the last century, it was renamed four times. It is only…
Israel offers travelers a new tourism package that includes participation in a staged terrorist attack, military exercises, counter-terrorism training conducted by reserve officers, and helicopter…
All parents dream that their children will live better. They always connected our future well-being with good studies, obtaining the right specialty, and climbing to an enviable career peak. Time…
More and more German students are "pulling" scientific papers from the Internet and passing them off as their own. University teachers are trying to fight fraudsters with their own weapon.
To test London's ability to cope with a tragedy on the scale of September 11, a 'catastrophic' terrorist attack will be simulated in Westminster or the City.
The other day Belgium became another country where "full-fledged" marriages for gays and lesbians are allowed - including international ones. Thus, when same-sex marriages are concluded between…
Representatives of British Airways have said they are reviewing their plans for the future of the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft, the Concorde. According to British Airways staff, this is…
The French authorities have drafted a law that significantly toughens liability for traffic violations. French President Jacques Chirac said that the situation on the country's roads is 'one of the…
Cases against drunk drivers make up more than a third of the approximately 60,000 criminal cases heard annually by Finland's district courts, Rosbalt reports.
In the Belgian North Sea port of Zeebrugge, a new electronic system for detecting illegal immigrants in freight trucks and containers departing by ferry across the English Channel to Great Britain…
In Germany, certain categories of refugees are no longer required to use plastic cards when shopping.
Foreign workers in Israel have started receiving gas masks, according to the English-language website of the Israeli daily newspaper The Jerusalem Post. The distribution of gas masks began on…
I want to tell about my first experience of traveling abroad. This story is quite fresh, and all the described events fit into the time period between Catholic Christmas and New Year.
Feeling unwell during a holiday abroad will soon cease to be a problem for Europeans: from 1 June 2004, a single health insurance card will be introduced in the European Union - it will be usable in…
Our compatriots who in Moscow and other Russian cities are subjected to unjustified checks by police officers (and often illegal extortions) will find it useful to study this memo.
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed amendments to the law on the legal status of foreigners, simplifying the mechanism for expelling foreigners and stateless persons detained within…
While the Bush administration is conducting military preparations in the Persian Gulf, a war "to defeat by fear" has already begun in America itself.
Every year about 300 thousand people come to Great Britain to study English. As BBC notes, teaching English to foreigners is called Britain's 'largest invisible export', whose volume already exceeded…