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Archive — April 2005

Multi-storey Luxembourg Tourism

Multi-storey Luxembourg

Historians often called the capital of the Grand Duchy the “Northern Gibraltar”. As the magazine “Europe” writes, this small city in the very heart of Europe has from ancient times been an almost…

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News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 275)

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Half a billion – for Ukraine and Poland? Sport

Half a billion – for Ukraine and Poland?

At the end of last week, a presentation of the preparation program for the tender to host the 2012 European Football Championship took place in Kyiv. Let us recall that Ukraine, together with Poland…

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Tourism

All tourist flags - come visit us!

Participants of the XI International Exhibition UITT-2005 «Україна - подорожі та туризм» tell readers of «Заграницы» about what the summer tourist season will offer our compatriots.

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Where the Fire Is Lit Education

Where the Fire Is Lit

Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and philosopher George Berkeley graduated from the respectable Irish boarding school Kilkenny College, after which they easily entered the prestigious…

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News

Europe and the US on the threshold of a visa war

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Curiosities

Money Goes Up in Smoke

Exactly one year ago Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in public places. Time to take stock.

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Holidays in St. Petersburg will become more expensive and popular Tourism

Holidays in St. Petersburg will become more expensive and popular

Tourist Petersburg intends to compete with Paris. As IA Rosbalt reports, a program for developing St. Petersburg as a tourist center was recently presented to the city government. The program was…

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News

Americans will be found all over the world

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Then We'll Give It to Them Curiosities

Then We'll Give It to Them

The workers of all countries just cannot unite even over such a historically significant occasion as the celebration of May 1.

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Tourism

May holidays will cost more

On the eve of the May holidays and the summer tourist season, not very pleasant news has hit us: cheap holidays in Turkey - the place of the most massive “deployment” of our holidaymakers - can no…

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Turin: The Ascent to Olympus Tourism

Turin: The Ascent to Olympus

Turin's residents too often say that their city is not ready for the flood of tourists. One wonders if this is false modesty, or whether Turin really considers itself too provincial to interest…

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To the Ocean on a Moped Tourism

To the Ocean on a Moped

Goa is the smallest and, perhaps, the cleanest state in India. As Izvestia.RU writes, the country's tourist territory, occupying only 110 km of the southeastern coast of India, can be studied almost…

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Education

Business education for ladies

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Don't blame the athlete - he jokes as best he can! Sport

Don't blame the athlete - he jokes as best he can!

In any work team, teasing and needling are an integral part of life. You can't go around with a serious face all the time - you could come across as unsociable and withdrawn. Moreover, not being able…

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Curiosities

Four-Wheeled Freedom

Stickers with a shoe inside a red triangle may soon appear on cars in Saudi Arabia.

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Australians create mini-states Curiosities

Australians create mini-states

As Australia discusses the prospect of becoming a republic, it faces its own problems internally. The number of mini-states wishing to declare their independence is growing here. This trend appeared…

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Japan Clearly Lacks Comfort Tourism

Japan Clearly Lacks Comfort

Why Japan's successes in the domestic tourism market are so modest.

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Main news of the issue (Abroad No. 274) News

Main news of the issue (Abroad No. 274)

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Immigration

European Social Model

The word 'lgoty' is very Russian. When I tried to translate it into any of the European languages I know, the result was typically not quite right. They have social advantages, gains, achievements…

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Lithuania changes approach to emigration Immigration

Lithuania changes approach to emigration

New EU member states are moving towards a positive view of the mass emigration of their citizens to richer countries.

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Immigration

Emigration News (Abroad No. 274)

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To Work in Russia – Through a 'Single Window' News

To Work in Russia – Through a 'Single Window'

Moscow promises to reduce the time for issuing work permits to migrants

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Visas hinder student exchanges Education

Visas hinder student exchanges

The scandal around the improper issuance of entry visas by German consular services negatively affects the development of relations between Ukraine and Germany.

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