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Archive — January 2006

How to navigate Turin Sport

How to navigate Turin

Two weeks remain until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, for which the large Italian city of Turin has become the host city. Turin is the first capital of a united Italy, although few people…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 315) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 315)

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The Long Road to Campus Education

The Long Road to Campus

Although we are told about a sudden rise in popularity of Chinese business schools, higher education in the USA still stubbornly maintains its reputation as almost the best in the world. The best…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 314) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 314)

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Estonia: the difficult road to the euro Money

Estonia: the difficult road to the euro

Having joined the European Union in 2004, Estonia declared that it wished to introduce the euro among the first new members of the union and set itself the goal of doing so by January 1, 2007. To…

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Hakuna Matata or First Date with Kenya Tourism

Hakuna Matata or First Date with Kenya

A huge, red-hot ball slowly sinks below the horizon. The sun illuminates the jungle with blood-crimson light, as if deciding to set a fire at the last moment. From this fire, clouds catch alight…

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Germany Will Help Them Return Immigration

Germany Will Help Them Return

Over the past fifteen years, since the late 1980s, several million people from the former USSR have moved to Germany. In their new homeland, many migrants had to face massive integration problems…

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Much-Respected Suitcase Airbus

Much-Respected Suitcase

Probably everyone who has ever flown on an airplane is familiar with that feeling of anxious expectation: one by one, endless strangers' suitcases emerge from the darkness of the baggage hold onto…

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Education

Admission Syndrome

What is an MBA today – here and in the West? Who absolutely needs it, and who has no reason to spend a year of their time, tens of thousands of dollars or pounds sterling, to become a “Master of…

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Airline News (Abroad No. 315) Tourism

Airline News (Abroad No. 315)

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Europe Freezing Over News

Europe Freezing Over

Severe "Russian" frosts are advancing on Western Europe. For example, at the beginning of the week temperatures in the Alps dropped to -30 degrees Celsius, and in Bavaria even below -33. Local media…

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Either Eat or Smoke Curiosities

Either Eat or Smoke

Following America, which suffers from obesity, the Old World has also joined the fight for a healthy lifestyle. The first victims of a healthy lifestyle, of course, were smokers. One after another…

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News

The Happiness of Being British

UK Finance Minister Gordon Brown proposed establishing a new holiday - Britain Day, similar in meaning to Bastille Day in France and US Independence Day.

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Estonia's Schengen Challenge News

Estonia's Schengen Challenge

Preparation for accession to the Schengen area began in Estonia immediately after joining the European Union in May 2004. Moreover, this became one of the main priorities of the state. The European…

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Americans Allowed to Carry Tweezers Airbus

Americans Allowed to Carry Tweezers

Since late December of last year, passengers on U.S. airlines have been allowed to bring a number of items in carry-on luggage that were previously considered prohibited. The U.S. Transportation…

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Americans went bankrupt Money

Americans went bankrupt

In the U.S., the number of personal bankruptcies has risen by nearly a third, reaching 2 million people. Americans are rushing to file for bankruptcy before a new law, which tightens the ability to…

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Everyday life

Hotel for Foreign Homeless

The Moscow city government has approved amendments to the law "On Special Institutions of the City of Moscow for the Detention of Foreign Citizens Subject to Deportation or Administrative Expulsion…

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Tourism

The Most Expensive Apartments

Forbes magazine published a ranking of the 10 most expensive apartments. This peculiar guide will not be useful for those who are ready to pay no more than $10 thousand per night. The information…

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Education

Fewer Students in Germany

The German federal government has declared increasing the number of university students as the goal of its education policy.

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Immigration

Immigration to Germany under the fiscal 'magnifying glass'

Is there, when emigrating to Germany (by analogy with the United States), upon obtaining a tax number, a procedure for declaring all funds that the emigrant has on the day of his entry into the…

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News

Tourists will be insured against pirates

The business of kidnapping people at sea for ransom, which has become very profitable in recent years, has provoked a response from insurers, and a new product has been introduced to the market…

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Professional unemployed Everyday life

Professional unemployed

Being unemployed in Sweden is a poorly respected but reliable profession, capable of supporting a person for decades. Moving into this category from the group of outcasts living on social benefits is…

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Leave your habits, all who enter here Tourism

Leave your habits, all who enter here

For all its historically established liberalism and religious tolerance, the United Arab Emirates is a Muslim country. This should never be forgotten by those who are setting foot on this land for…

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Different Taste of a Common Holiday Gourmet guide

Different Taste of a Common Holiday

Are you also tired of fake "Olivier" salad, red caviar, champagne under the chimes, and "what a disgusting thing your jellied fish is"? How I understand you... Well, fly with me. It won't be boring!

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