Sport
MONTHLY PROGRAM. The second month of spring in the sports world will be marked by essentially two sports - football and tennis. In football, championships are gradually coming to an end, while in…
Country guide
Marseille emerged sharply from behind the clouds and made passengers on the landing plane press their faces to the portholes - the view that opened from a great height was worth it. Even though it…
Education
CALENDAR We have a national trait, fortunately gradually being replaced by new norms of life: we do everything at the last moment, in a rush and with strain. And, of course, with losses - both of…
Everyday life
Many years ago, while working in Germany, when I came home, I found my 12-year-old daughter examining X-ray images that vividly reminded me of the unattractive skeleton from a school biology…
Tourism
There is a noticeable stirring among our tourists: spring in Budapest, a tour of Czech castles... sounds tempting, doesn't it? And every now and then the thought flashes: what if we dash off to…
Everyday life
These letters were written quite recently by a person who could not have imagined that the second half of their life would be spent so far from their native Kiev - in Italy. Although by today's…
Work
Some people set their sights on Europe and go to rebuild the national economy of the Kingdom of Spain or the Federal Republic of Germany. Some find close relatives—of the very distant kind—somewhere…
News
The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has published in London a forecast for the development of the tourism industry for 2004 and the coming decade, according to Izvestia.RU. The global tourism…
While foreigners from all over the world come to Germany hoping to find work here, about 110,000 Germans go abroad for the same purpose every year, reports Deutsche Welle.
The highest wages in Europe are paid in Denmark, and the lowest - in Moldova. Such data are contained in a report published by the Federation of European Employers, an independent organization…
Country guide
Russian-speaking Jews in Israel do not eat. Nor do they nourish themselves. They have a meal. It is precisely in this way, with respect for the process and its components, that food consumption…
The editors turned to visitors of the forum on the website «Zagranitsy» with a request to provide information about prices for goods and services in different countries. Naturally, readers are least…
Work
Ukrainians working legally abroad are protected by the state. Illegal workers have to rely on their employers' word. Experts disagree on the number of Ukrainian citizens working abroad. The…
I foresee that the topic I want to touch on this time will provoke both debate and the most contradictory judgments among readers. Indeed, if every emigrant is able to give an exhaustive answer to…
Of Brussels' thousand-year history, about eight centuries were under foreign rule: the Burgundian dukes, the Spanish and Austrian emperors, Napoleon, the Dutch neighbors, not to mention two German…
Remember what happened to the unlucky tourist in the film “The Diamond Arm”? “He slipped, fell, woke up...” You immediately recall the cheerful parting words of the travel agency manager who handed…
Work
Sociological studies conducted by scientists from the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the National Institute of International Security Problems under the…
Tourism
To learn everything about London, it would take years. But, as Voyage and Leisure notes, that is no reason to put off getting acquainted with the British capital.
Money
Soon the word "greenback" as applied to the world's most common currency will become irrelevant, writes the magazine "Career". In October of last year, the international public was presented with the…
Drifting polar stations are as much Russian know-how as matryoshka or tea with a bite of sugar. This cheap and effective way of exploring the Arctic was invented in 1929 by Vladimir Vize, a…
Everyday life
What happiness when a baby appears in the house! And how joyful it is for a young mother to realize that she can count on state help in this difficult task — "raising" a new citizen. But is this so?…
Immigration
The practice of German justice in considering asylum applications is of some interest, since the countries of the former Soviet Union occupy the unenviable first places in the German list of refugee…
In December we told the story of Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Shelukhin, sentenced by the Zelenograd court of the Russian capital to deportation and separation from his young Muscovite wife (see…