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Archive — June 2006

From the sublime to the ridiculous Sport

From the sublime to the ridiculous

The Football World Cup, like any other event of such scale, generates an incredible amount of accompanying news, incidents, and simply interesting cases. Happy are the fans who manage to see the…

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Entertaining Ethnography Tourism

Entertaining Ethnography

Sea waves and centuries of its own history separate Sicily from the rest of Italy. As «Вояж и отдых» notes, this island is as unpredictable as the sea wind and as multifaceted as a wayward deity…

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Desperate Guys on the Football Field Sport

Desperate Guys on the Football Field

The opening matches of the World Cup in Germany have already shown that refereeing is far from impeccable. In the England-Paraguay match, referees forbid the players of foggy Albion to drink during…

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A dacha beyond seven seas Real estate

A dacha beyond seven seas

It is no secret that real estate abroad sometimes costs less than at home. However, when purchasing, various legal complications may arise with paperwork, since the buyer is a citizen of another…

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English for Applicants Education

English for Applicants

As is known, to get into a university in an English-speaking country, you don't have to take entrance exams. Except for one - the language exam. It is the English exam that serves as a slingshot, the…

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Much Music and Wild Vikings Tourism

Much Music and Wild Vikings

In the coming July, a wave of jazz, rock, symphony, chamber and folk festivals will take place across Europe. To this should be added no less high-profile traveling theaters, dance parades, knightly…

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Flippers, Sticks, and Study Education

Flippers, Sticks, and Study

Is your English far from perfect? Why not combine English lessons with rest, travel or a hobby? After all, in an age of fierce competition, language schools in various countries are ready to fulfill…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 337) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 337)

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Spain: Parade of Sovereignties Integration

Spain: Parade of Sovereignties

At the beginning of last week, the results of a referendum on expanding the autonomous rights of the Spanish province of Catalonia were published – it is the most economically developed region of…

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Fans left without trousers Curiosities

Fans left without trousers

World Cup sponsors left in the most literal sense without trousers several fans of the Netherlands national team, who were going to support their players during a match in Stuttgart against the Ivory…

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News

US tracks banks around the world

The leadership of the US Treasury Department and the CIA have officially confirmed information about the existence of a secret program to track banking operations around the world, the BBC reports…

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Operation 'visa' – mission accomplished Visas

Operation 'visa' – mission accomplished

In organizing an independent trip, nothing is more difficult than obtaining a visa - that’s what most tourists think. In reality, consulates are ordinary bureaucratic structures, and the officials…

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A Big Summer for a Little Company: A Journey Beyond Three Seas Tourism

A Big Summer for a Little Company: A Journey Beyond Three Seas

So, the calendars did not deceive: summer has arrived. The best, the most long-awaited, quietly whispering magical tales, fluttering on the palm like a rainbow butterfly. Vacation coincides with…

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My Italian Universities Education

My Italian Universities

Many young people in Ukraine sooner or later ask themselves the age-old question: “What is to be done?” This question confronted me after an exhausting “workday” in the field of public education. The…

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Money

Cashless Vacation

Have you already thought about how you will spend your vacation? Abroad? By the sea or traveling through cities? In any case, you need to take care in advance of transporting cash beyond the borders…

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Foreigners in National Teams Sport

Foreigners in National Teams

When a foreigner leads the national team to victory, many see it as unpatriotic. However, for the current FIFA World Cup in Germany, a good half of the national teams have been brought by foreigners…

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Tourism

Big Summer for a Small Company: Sun, Sea and Paella

Have you ever seen a country that has declared family tourism its priority? This is Spain. More precisely, its autonomous region Catalonia. Catalonia was the first in Europe to develop a certificate…

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Main news of the issue (foreign №336) News

Main news of the issue (foreign №336)

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Vacation in Turkish style Tourism

Vacation in Turkish style

The Turkish tourism industry is famous not only for inventing the all-inclusive system, but also for its unusual architectural projects. Hotels that are replicas of the Moscow Kremlin or the famous…

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Football Republic of Germany Sport

Football Republic of Germany

Six years Germany waited for this day. Six years of endless negotiations, clarifications, meetings, plus huge construction sites and numerous repairs in all major cities of the country. At times it…

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Tourism

A Big Summer for a Small Company: Visiting Mickey Mouse

There are places in the world specially created for family holidays. They are located inside some large states and are called Disneylands. There is everything needed for the happiness of children and…

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Europe Let Down by Gypsies News

Europe Let Down by Gypsies

The U.S. and Canada refuse to cancel visas for citizens of new EU member states.

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The Exams We Choose Education

The Exams We Choose

Currently, more and more people around the world are realizing that passing an international language exam is an urgent necessity. Streams of students and workforce move from country to country, and…

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Tourism

A Big Summer for a Small Group: Itineraries from a Textbook

The sea, of course, is the sea, but sometimes you want to see some historical or cultural monuments. This is especially important for children - then school textbooks will become clearer to them too!…

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