Everyday life
Uzhhorod native Alla Blahina has been living in Switzerland for the past two years, returning to Ukraine from time to time for university exam sessions. At home, marriage did not work out: she…
The story of Belarusian guest worker Andrei Belykh (surname changed) is somewhat reminiscent of a Cinderella story. He started as an unskilled laborer, and now he himself can easily be called an…
What should you pay attention to when buying a digital camera? Which technical specifications are more important for different types of photographers? Gazeta.Ru asked renowned St. Petersburg…
Work
Legal but still powerless guest workers in the Russian capital have a chance to find a way to hold their employers accountable. As Izvestia.Ru reports, an Interindustry Trade Union of Workers of…
Curiosities
How to escape American justice: first to Hungary, then to the Philippines, then to Japan, then back to the Philippines and again to Japan. Philippines - Japan, Japan - Philippines. Such a chess…
In many countries around the world, fee-based education no longer surprises anyone. Germany, however, still remains an island where everyone can count on receiving free education (at least a first…
British intelligence agencies demanded that in photographs on identity documents of tourists arriving in the kingdom, the owner's face should be sad and expressionless, reports The Telegraph…
By the end of the year, the 'Understanding and Reconciliation' fund will begin paying the second tranche of compensation to former forced laborers of the Third Reich. This was announced by the head…
A draft law establishing a uniform procedure for citizens to change their name, surname, and patronymic has been submitted to the government of Ukraine. The draft document was developed by the…
News
The U.S. authorities are expanding a program to monitor the length of stay of foreigners so that they leave the United States in accordance with the terms specified in their visas. As ITAR-TASS…
Country guide
They say that the history of Malta is 7,000 years of endless adventures. Its name is shrouded in romantic legends. As Education Without Borders. StudyIN notes, there is even a version according to…
Auto tour
Throughout its history, Cyprus, located at the crossroads of trade routes between three parts of the world - Europe, Asia, and Africa - has repeatedly changed hands. It belonged to Byzantium, the…
Gourmet guide
Walking recently through the city center, I met an old acquaintance. On a small stall of cheerful colors, there was an inscription: "Hawaiian Snow." It turned out that now this exotic kind of frozen…
Tourism
The number of stars is a question no less important for a tourist than for a cognac lover. Both would prefer five to three. If, of course, funds allow. Any traveler knows: the more stars on a hotel's…
Culture
The traveler won't be bored: a notable photography exhibition in Brussels, Rubens with his students in nearby Antwerp, contemporary Chinese artists in Lyon, video art by Viola in Bilbao, El Greco…
Sport
The Olympic Games originated in Ancient Greece, and it is generally believed that the first Games took place in 776 BC. Since then, athletic competitions held in Olympia took place every four years…
Immigration
The recent scandal surrounding French President Jacques Chirac's withdrawal of an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to visit Paris proved as short-lived as an unexpected and rare…
Curiosities
The closer the Olympic Games in Athens get, the clearer it becomes that Beijing (where they will be held in 2008) is not going to make it on time. It's not a matter of hotels, write Izvestia.Ru…
News
In one of the busiest districts of the Czech capital, near Wenceslas Square, a grenade exploded around noon on Sunday. Eighteen people were injured, including one child, and all were taken to Prague…
Education
The Ukrainian government has promised that from July 1 of this year, university students and vocational school students will receive scholarships that are almost double their previous size. According…
Last week, two German interior ministers - the Bavarian and the federal one - were in the spotlight of the press. As reports Russkaya Germania, both made statements that could not go unnoticed.
"The customer is always right, especially when on holiday," - that's how one can summarize the content of the document prepared by the European Commission to help Europeans going on vacation. The…