The long-awaited Summer Olympic Games in Athens had barely begun when our hopes of winning the most precious awards in the world of sport – gold Olympic medals – began to come true. After all, as…
It turns out that the Kingdom of the Netherlands differs from Ukraine not only in its political system, liberal mores, cheeses, tulips, and football team. In Holland, the principles of education also…
Three years ago I happened to be on a journalism internship in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Nearby, in Munich, there was another intern from my group who persistently urged me to go see Neuschwanstein Castle…
In today's article I would like to point out the planned important changes to the procedure for the resettlement of Russian Germans and their descendants to their historical homeland. These projects…
Arabs are one of the many generalizations that humanity loves so much in its eternal quest to simplify the reality around us. The inhabitants of planet Earth who can be called Arabs are an incredibly…
The vast and sparsely populated spaces of the state of Brandenburg, which surround the German capital on all sides, attract investors specializing in tourist services, reports Deutsche Welle…
When it comes to stereotypes that define the image of a nation, in the case of Germany many people automatically picture a fat Bavarian in leather trousers, a hat with a feather, and a huge mug of…
Greece has begun a fight against speculators. By shamelessly inflating prices for everything, they are simply scaring tourists away from the Olympics and depriving the country of income. However, as…
Ukrainian border guards stopped an attempt to take a group of minors with improperly executed documents abroad, Interfax-Ukraine reports. At the Shehyni international road checkpoint in the Lviv…
Commercial banks in Italy have 15 billion euros in unclaimed funds, RIA Novosti reports. These are so-called “dormant” accounts, on which no transactions have been made for several years.
US President George Bush signed an order to postpone by one year the validity of the existing passport regime for citizens of 27 countries covered by the visa-free entry agreement, according to the…
Flying will become noticeably more expensive from this autumn. According to the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Lufthansa, like many other German carriers, intends to cancel the commission for the…
In Kyiv, officers of the criminal investigation department together with employees of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of the State Economy of the SBU exposed and detained an…
Over the past 14 years, the number of asylum seekers in Berlin has steadily declined. Now this trend may change dramatically, writes Russkaya Germaniya.
More than 5,300 people from Ukraine became winners of the American visa lottery DV-2005, which is held among citizens of countries with low levels of immigration to the United States, in 2005…
The UK Home Office proposes to make the arrest and search procedure easier, the BBC reports. Among other things, it is proposed to allow police to arrest people for the most minor offences, such as…
The Department of Citizenship and Migration begins testing new-type ID-cards containing a digital image of the holder's face and fingerprints, reports DELFI.
The ranking of the 500 best universities in the world for 2003 was compiled by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai University (Shanghai Jiao Tong University`s Institute of Higher…
Education
Futurists predict that the 21st century will become an era of globalization and integration of culture, science, and economics. The concept of a “state border” will have mainly a political character…
News
Swedes are a stubborn people. If they have prepared for a summer holiday, they will spend it as summer. Therefore, on the streets of Visby, a medieval Hanseatic city, the capital of the island of…
Culture
Recently, oriental dances have become wildly popular. Arabic music plays at discos, embroidered bodices and belts with beaded threads are increasingly coming into fashion, belly dance festivals are…
Sport
On the eve of the European Football Championship, the problem of that radically minded part of football supporters who are called fans became acute. The Portuguese authorities, trying to hold the…
Immigration
WHAT TO DO FOR THE WINNER OF THE FIRST ROUND OF DV As already reported in the last July issue of "Zagranitsa" (No. 30), the U.S. Department of State announced the results of the Diversity Immigrant…