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Archive — August 2005

How I Got a Fiancée Visa Immigration

How I Got a Fiancée Visa

Before the visa interview, I was more nervous than ever in my life. What if they refuse? Joel, my fiancé, was perfectly calm: "There must be serious reasons for refusing a fiancée visa, because in…

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Europe through the Back Door Immigration

Europe through the Back Door

I was traveling in a tour bus through Andalusia. “Look to the right, look to the left,” the guide said. We looked. They were showing us Spain. A voice from the radio panels told the story of the town…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 294) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 294)

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Country guide

Castles in the Desert

For centuries, the Berbers have honed the delicate art of survival. To defend against enemies, they devised an ingenious network of fortified structures, the secrets of which scientists are still…

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Linguistic talent Education

Linguistic talent

Some people cannot even read a single chapter of a textbook on a dare, and listening to language tapes puts them into a deep sleep. They can learn a foreign language only by practical means…

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Mountain Academy of Health Country guide

Mountain Academy of Health

Tibetan medicine is now becoming fashionable. Methods of treating all diseases based solely on the use of natural, primarily herbal, remedies are attracting more and more of our compatriots. To learn…

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Who will help tow your car away Auto tour

Who will help tow your car away

Drivers do not like the word "tow truck". It is associated with such an unpleasant concept as "impound lot". However, there are cases when tow truck drivers are eagerly awaited – for example, if a…

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Europe Gives the Go-Ahead to Pedaling Curiosities

Europe Gives the Go-Ahead to Pedaling

The modern saying 'He who has stood in traffic jams does not laugh at a moped' is quite applicable to the bicycle as well. On the other hand, it is clear that a bicycle cannot compete with a car in…

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Competition for Airspace Airbus

Competition for Airspace

The AeroSvit airline regards the information from the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine, referring to the position of Minister Yevhen Chervonenko, that AeroSvit…

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French Lessons Education

French Lessons

Studying at universities in France is not only prestigious but also financially advantageous, since higher education there is practically free. Preparation and admission resemble the path taken by…

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News

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wants to preserve current travel regime to Russia

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry assures citizens that it will try to preserve the opportunity for them to travel to Russia using internal passports. At the same time, as Strana.Ru writes, in private…

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Curiosities

The State as a Pimp

The Czech government has drafted a bill according to which prostitution in the Czech Republic becomes a legal profession. However, the experience of Western countries where such a law is already in…

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Sport

"Russian Gold" from Dnipropetrovsk

Ukrainian footballer with a Russian passport Andrei Karyaka will play for Portuguese Benfica.

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Will thousands of former citizens of Germany be expelled? Immigration

Will thousands of former citizens of Germany be expelled?

After the publication of the material about the intentions of the federal Interior Ministry to strip German citizenship from 50,000 German Turks and several tens of thousands of late resettlers, the…

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On an alien planet Education

On an alien planet

Personal experience: the most romantic city on Earth — through the eyes of our student.

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For Whom America Weeps Work

For Whom America Weeps

Giant flows of labor are constantly moving across the world. They move in all directions. They travel, for example, from west to east - in the interests of firms, for self-realization, and because…

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At the Crossroads of Three Roads Education

At the Crossroads of Three Roads

The history of Malta is a clear illustration of the fate that can befall a country located in a strategically important place, at the crossroads of trade routes from Europe to Africa and Asia, on the…

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Montenegro - a country of orange roofs Tourism

Montenegro - a country of orange roofs

No matter how sophisticated a tourist may be, in Montenegro there will always be something worthy of attention and a pleasant addition to a vacation. By and large, this country has it all: beautiful…

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And we need the Turkish coast Tourism

And we need the Turkish coast

Probably, a good two-thirds of traveling compatriots begin their acquaintance with beach holidays abroad with Turkey. In my case, however, it was the other way around, to the point of being…

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Integration

Bulgaria strives for the “Euroclub”

The invitation of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, and subsequently also Turkey, is entirely logical if viewed in the context of the new Euro-Atlantic strategy. Such a course could open…

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Mobile operator UMC offers roaming in 150 countries worldwide Technology

Mobile operator UMC offers roaming in 150 countries worldwide

Recently, popular travel TV presenter Igor Pelekh told journalists about the advantages of high-quality communication that UMC offers its subscribers. You can appreciate them while roaming on any of…

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Belarusian hope of London's Arsenal Sport

Belarusian hope of London's Arsenal

Our northern neighbours - Belarusians - cannot boast either a national football team leading the qualifying tournament for the World Cup, or clubs representing the country in the main draw of the…

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Gymnastics for the Language Education

Gymnastics for the Language

What should a traveler do in Kiev, Rome, Paris or Tokyo if it is not clear what language the locals speak? There is an opinion that the international language Esperanto, created in 1887 and…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 293) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 293)

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