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Archive — July 2005

No Need to Speak Czech Perfectly Immigration

No Need to Speak Czech Perfectly

A year ago, the Czech Centre for the Integration of Foreigners, located in Prague's Žižkov district, was taking its first steps, initially focusing its activities on helping foreigners with…

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Tourism

Lukashenko's Nostalgic Tourism

From July, all Belarusian tour firms will be obliged to engage in inbound and domestic tourism. Failure to comply with this requirement, which applies to foreign and joint enterprises, will result in…

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An Englishman's home is no longer his castle News

An Englishman's home is no longer his castle

On the night of July 6-7, all of London celebrated: the International Olympic Committee had selected the capital of Great Britain as the site for the 2012 Olympics. Despite it being the middle of the…

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Cultural hitchhiking in Germany Tourism

Cultural hitchhiking in Germany

There are many ways to get where you need to go. But if you have set yourself the goal of doing it in the cheapest way, you cannot do without hitchhiking. The topic of hitchhiking is inexhaustible…

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Education

Dropouts by Choice

Almost half of Berlin university students - about 150,000 people - dropped out of their studies this year. This statement was made by German finance senator Thilo Sarrazin. However, his concern is…

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How to impress the IOC inspection? Sport

How to impress the IOC inspection?

Applicant cities need to answer questions covering 17 areas, from infrastructure to public support. Here are these topics, brought together and presented in an accessible form by BBC journalists.

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 287) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 287)

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Education

Knowledge Is Not Given — Knowledge Is Taken

Rector of the National Academy of Management Sergey Yerokhin on the vector of Ukrainian higher education.

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British Storm in the European Union News

British Storm in the European Union

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has rushed to storm a new bastion: the United Kingdom will chair the EU Council for six months. And Blair himself, for a full six months, becomes a kind of…

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A Remarkable Neighbor Tourism

A Remarkable Neighbor

Experienced tourists who have already visited all the world's resorts and seen the sights of many different countries were drawn to Poland this summer. As Financial News notes, the nearest neighbor…

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Lady Godiva will ride through town again Tourism

Lady Godiva will ride through town again

July in Europe is fun with a touch of ancient traditions: now naked Lady Godiva rides through Coventry, now in Brussels people gather for the ancient Ommegang in medieval armor and hold a crossbow…

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Gazpacho for the Russian Macho Tourism

Gazpacho for the Russian Macho

Needless to say, it is hard to think of a better place for a holiday than Spain. Its resorts have sonorous names, each of which in itself resembles an advertising slogan: Costa Brava, Costa del Sol…

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English for the Restless Education

English for the Restless

Learning English... It is a necessary, useful thing, but, alas, it requires diligence and patience. Sitting in a stuffy classroom, heeding the teacher's words, poring over textbooks like a galley…

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Ukrainian Wimbledon Final Sport

Ukrainian Wimbledon Final

The Open Championship of England - the renowned Wimbledon - has concluded. One of its heroines could have been Ukrainian tennis player Tatyana Perebiynis, but the Kharkiv native, alas, lost in the…

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Everyday life

Europe continues its fight against smoking

Starting in January, the Czech Republic will join the ranks of countries where smoking is banned in public places. In addition, under a law adopted by the lower house of the Czech parliament…

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Admission ended, but not completed Immigration

Admission ended, but not completed

Jewish immigration to Germany will be subjected to severe restrictions. This, as "Russkaya Germaniya" writes, was agreed by the participants of the conference of interior ministers of the federal…

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Britain counts illegal immigrants for first time Immigration

Britain counts illegal immigrants for first time

Up to 570,000 illegal immigrants live in the UK - that is the estimate of the country's Home Office. The British government has for the first time made such calculations - earlier Prime Minister Tony…

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Under the Sun of Knowledge Education

Under the Sun of Knowledge

If it is true that learning is light, then where else to study if not in sunny Spain? Today it carefully preserves the great traditions of its glorious history, building on this foundation a solid…

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The Blue Door in White Tunisia Tourism

The Blue Door in White Tunisia

Sousse is very conveniently located. At least, for seeing all the most interesting things in Tunisia. As the columnist of the magazine «Вояж и отдых» notes, from there you can easily get to the…

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German homeless person - who is he? Everyday life

German homeless person - who is he?

On the streets of German cities, one often encounters people who seem to have stepped out of the pages of the Soviet press denouncing the 'sores' of capitalism. They have sallow complexions, hollow…

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Big Football on the Way Sport

Big Football on the Way

The pause in European football life is usually short in summer. Barely have they caught their breath and looked around when the start of the new season is just around the corner. In a number of…

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At Bacchus's Call Gourmet guide

At Bacchus's Call

Wine tasting in a long journey can become an ordinary celebration of "comprehension" in vino veritas, or it can turn into a most interesting excursion. You can appreciate the taste of history - in…

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Main news of the issue (Abroad No. 286) News

Main news of the issue (Abroad No. 286)

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Island of Bad Luck Everyday life

Island of Bad Luck

Half of the male population of Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific was accused of having sex with minors. As a result, six natives were imprisoned last year. But the story did not end there.

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