Bacchanalias on the Greek island of Zakynthos, bagpipers in Glasgow, fiesta in the cities of Spain, Beatles week in Liverpool, music over the dunes of Ostend and in Finnish Turku. And many medieval…
The Red Cross Tracing Service appeals to you, dear readers, with a request to respond to all those who can provide any information about the fate of people whom relatives and close ones are searching…
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In recent years, the tourism sector of Cyprus has been unable to exist without foreign employees. In the current holiday season, the sunny island has been overrun with guest workers from Estonia…
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"A four-meter great white shark has been found in the Adriatic Sea near the coast of Croatia. In this regard, the tourism ministry has alerted holidaymakers to a possible danger..." Summer news…
“How many years have passed since the war ended...” It would seem that everything has grown over with the grass of oblivion. But here, to the Tracing Service of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, at 30…
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Frightened by the explosions in the London Underground, New York authorities have introduced random passenger checks in their subway. Human rights activists have already been outraged by the…
The current “high” holiday season fully justifies its name. The cost of tours horrifies even far from the poorest tourists. For a week's rest in a 4-5-star hotel, we are asked to pay at least $1,000…
Education
In Kiev, there is a fashion for the Japanese language. Turkish and Arabic lag slightly behind. There are also fans of Chinese, Persian, and Hindi. It is hard to believe that all adherents of the…
Canada has become the fourth country in the world (after the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain) to legalize same-sex marriage, thus equalizing in rights the traditional heterosexual union between a man…
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Across Europe - from Portugal to Sweden - forest fires are raging, temperatures in many cities have passed the forty-degree mark, water bodies have become shallow or completely dried up, and the…
According to the U.S. Embassy in Chisinau, there are signals about the activities of "fraudulent firms posing as official companies allegedly representing the United States government under the DV…
As reported by Deputy Head of the Press Service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Svistkov, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons has published a list of…
The US Embassy in Ukraine warns against using intermediary services to obtain a visa. "If some Ukrainian here says he can help you get a visa, rest assured, it is fraud," said Mary-Kay Carlson…
The Latvian government has adopted a document that specifies the amount of money required for anyone wishing to visit this country, Interfax reports.
In 2006, for the first time in recent decades, the number of Jewish residents in the State of Israel may exceed the number of Jews in other countries of the world and even in the United States, where…
Given the size and small room stock, the classification system for mini-hotels differs from the conventional star-rating system applied to large hotels. Therefore, for a specific, familiar category…
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Will Britain's presidency of the European Union coincide with the beginning of a freeze in integration processes?
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“The sun shines, the waters gleam, a smile on everything, life in everything...” It seems Tyutchev quite succeeded in conveying that special “summer mood” that reigns in the hearts of northern…
Sport
In the early days of July, the eyes of the world's sporting community were turned to Singapore. It was in this Asian city-state, situated on an island, that on July 6, 2005, the President of the…
Tourism
Big Ben, Loch Ness, streets with “wrong-way” traffic and Her Majesty are written about in every guidebook, so this sort of “short guide” will focus rather on the details that usually make up one's…