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Archive — July 2003

News

Prosecutor General's Office investigates fate of children adopted by foreigners

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is investigating the fate of all Ukrainian children adopted by foreign citizens. This was announced on Monday at a press conference in Kyiv by Prosecutor…

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News

Ukrainians and Lebanese will treat each other for free

Emergency medical assistance to Ukrainians temporarily staying in Lebanon and Lebanese citizens temporarily staying on Ukrainian territory will be provided free of charge.

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Tourism

Survival School Abroad

To ensure your stay abroad doesn't consist solely of dealing with unexpected problems, follow a few of our tips.

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Real estate

Sometimes even hens fly

Until recently, we smugly reasoned that Bulgaria is not really a foreign country, but rather the 16th republic of our no longer existing state, and that we would always and in everything be the…

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Sport

Oleg Protasov - Champion of All Champions!

Footballer Oleg Protasov was well known at the time when the Dnipropetrovsk football product scored many goals in the USSR championship - for his native Dnipro and Kyiv Dynamo. He was well known…

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Education

A good school of life can also be attended in Czechia

Quite a lot of students from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia today receive higher education in the Czech Republic. Our compatriots Larisa and Alexander are first-year students at the private Institute…

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Everyday life

Married to a Japanese Man

Marrying a wealthy foreigner is for many of our female compatriots almost the same as hitting the jackpot in a serious lottery. With the only significant difference that if in the lottery machine…

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News

Swedes will travel in Schengen without a passport in a year

Only from autumn 2004 will Swedes be able to travel to other Schengen zone countries without a passport, since a new form of identity card indicating citizenship will be introduced. This is reported…

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News

Russians in Turkmenistan promised residence permits

Persons with Russian citizenship living in Turkmenistan will be able to obtain a residence permit. This was reported on Monday by the Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov.

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News

Ukrainians lead in number of refugee applications in the United States

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that in 2002, 89,700 people tried to obtain refugee status in the United States. Among former Soviet Union countries, Ukraine (its citizens…

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News

From Ukraine It Will Be Possible to Reach 15 Asian Countries

AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines and Thai International Airways have signed a memorandum providing for a significant development of air service between Ukraine and Southeast Asia.

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News

Britons may be deprived of a national pastime. Parliamentarians spent over five hours arguing about the fate of red foxes

The traditional British pastime of fox hunting may be outlawed. Last week the lower house of the British Parliament, the House of Commons, voted to ban fox hunting with hounds. According to Vremya…

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Tourism

What are salmon and how to catch them. Finns willingly share their fish riches

Kuusamo is a city in northeastern Finland, almost on the border with Karelia. It is located in Oulu Province, which Finns call the gateway to Lapland. The city is the largest in area in Finland, but…

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News

Trial continues in case of Ukrainian gang. German Foreign Ministry fears for the lives of its employees

A trial in the case of a Ukrainian gang involved in smuggling illegal migrants across the border has been ongoing in Cologne for several months. Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Ministry has not allowed…

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Personal experience

My Ireland - a Country of Study and Work

Probably, ten years ago it was hard even to imagine how freely and confidently our compatriots would move across the vast expanses... no, not of our homeland, but of distant foreign lands…

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Country guide

Land of the Unfrightened Taliban

The other day, a Gazeta.Ru correspondent returned home from the only place in the world where Russians with special passes go to an American military base for vodka. Even Foreign Ministry employees…

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Tourism

Nudists relax just like ordinary tourists. A tour of the world's most naked places

Do you know what Isadora Duncan, Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus and Maximilian Voloshin have in common? They all loved to unnecessarily bare their beautiful and not-so-beautiful bodies on the beach. This…

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Immigration

Struggle at the crossing. Canadian court vs. the immigration ministry

Immigration lawyers in Canada representing those who applied for immigration to Canada during the period of the old immigration law but became hostages to the amendments made to it (they began to be…

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Education

A good education is the main inheritance that parents can give their children

Quite recently, the last school bell rang for eleventh-grade graduates. Now a very serious and responsible moment has come in their lives, when they need to make up their minds and make the most…

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Sport

Roman (Abramovich) with Chelsea

Last week the football world was rocked by news from the British Isles. And not just the football world - everyone is shocked by what the well-known Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, currently…

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News

The Odessa trace in Spanish football

Abramovich is not the first person from the former USSR to invest in a foreign football club (and far from the first businessman to want to acquire a team from another country). Let us recall that at…

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News

Massive baggage loss at US airports

The mandatory screening of all airline passengers' baggage at US airports, introduced by the authorities in January of this year, has led to the widespread disappearance of items from suitcases and…

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News

New procedure for child adoption approved

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the procedure for registration of children who may be adopted, persons who want to adopt a child, as well as the procedure for supervision over the…

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Education

For the German Language

As is well known, the fastest and most reliable way to teach a beginner to swim is to throw him into the water far from the shore. Within half a minute he will swim like a charm, even without the…

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