Disneyland employees are expanding: in recent years, the waist size of men's trousers has increased to 145 centimeters. And this despite the fact that the employment contract contains a clause…
Last week, a protest march of French students took place on the Place de la Bastille in Paris. Young people spoke out against certain provisions of the bill on combating youth unemployment adopted on…
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The conflict around the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad has turned into a fundamental confrontation. Adherents of Islam, which forbids any depiction of the prophet, are demanding…
Officially, only 1-2% of the total number of labor migrants are employed abroad. In total, according to expert estimates, up to 3 million Ukrainian citizens work outside the country today. According…
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Sport
No matter how attractive the Winter Olympic Games may be, without the hockey tournament their full value can be safely questioned. It is the fastest game in the world, as ice hockey (or Canadian…
Immigration
The new Immigration Act of 2002 (as amended) and the new Immigration Regulations were published in June last year and came into force on July 1, 2005, completing a significant period of amendments to…
Gourmet guide
Today, with the help of wine, you can heal, create designer masterpieces, and fuel a car. And wine is also drunk... Most wine websites don't say anything about unconventional uses of wine - it is…
Gourmet guide
It would seem that seafood dishes have a known, predictable and familiar taste for everyone. Their pronounced sea aroma is quite recognizable in any cuisine of the world. But there are countries…
There will be no spring. This pessimistic forecast was made this year by the famous American groundhog Phil from the small town of Punxsutawney in Pennsylvania. Events developed according to the…
The largest insurance company in the UK, Norwich Union, has published a list of the ten most absurd explanations for damage to an insured car. As The Guardian newspaper writes, experts found that…
Economists' studies comparing EU citizens' perceptions with their actual incomes from Germany's membership in the European Union yielded an unexpected result. German Euro-deputies demand satisfaction.
Sport
Only a week remained before the opening of the Olympic Games in Turin, and yet the city, in the opinion of many observers, was not yet ready for the main sporting event of the four-year cycle and was…
On February 10, the Winter Olympic Games open in Italy. We managed to get to Turin and tried to learn the Olympic venues from the map (see the previous issue of "Zagranitsa"). It remains to figure…
Travelers planning to spend February away from home are in for a whole ocean of fun and madness. At the festivities that will sweep across Europe in a few weeks, you will see bearded women, wild…
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As last year showed, investing in real estate allows you to get one of the highest returns. However, as "Financial Izvestia" notes, in the capital and its environs housing prices have already…
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The Federal Chancellor of Germany has seriously thought about solving the demographic problem. As Angela Merkel stated, increasing the birth rate is one of the main political tasks for modern…
Curiosities
Last week, a ban imposed by the police authorities of France on the activities of charitable organizations that feed the homeless and beggars came into effect. They are ordered to exclude from the…
Germany's Interior Ministry presented a draft law to tighten immigration rules. The 260-page document was written by Wolfgang Schäuble exactly on the anniversary of the entry into force of the Law on…
Immigration
Mexican government organization - the National Human Rights Agency - announced the start of distribution to all comers of map-booklets that will detail all roads, trails, streams, forbidden zones…
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New Zealand most effectively solves the internal and global environmental problems facing it. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from Yale and Columbia universities in the USA, who compiled…