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Archive — July 2006

Tourism

Wine, Shellfish, and Knights in Armor

In August, Europe will host medieval history festivals in England, Denmark, and Italy, the annual Norwegian seafood festival, and famous wine festivals in Germany. Also noteworthy is one of Europe's…

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Brown Dawn of the East News

Brown Dawn of the East

Some new EU member states are gradually becoming a chronic headache for Brussels: as a result of the recent parliamentary elections in these countries, radicals of the most extreme stripe have come…

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News

Main news of the issue (Foreign no.341)

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Germans leave Germany Immigration

Germans leave Germany

Emigration from Germany reached a new record: last year, 145,000 people turned their backs on their homeland. This figure is cited by the Federal Statistical Office. The association Raphaels-Werk…

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News

Russian Managers Live Lavishly

Russian managers live better than their colleagues from the US, Germany, and France. But they should thank not their corporations for this, but their home country, where the majority of the…

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Germany Debates Immigration Policy for Foreigners Immigration

Germany Debates Immigration Policy for Foreigners

Can unemployed foreigners bring their spouses to live in Germany? How to encourage integration into German society and how to punish unwillingness to integrate? German politicians argue about all…

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Estonia and Lithuania have not yet joined the eurozone Money

Estonia and Lithuania have not yet joined the eurozone

The Baltic countries remain outside the euro currency area. To be fair, not all of them intended to join this area right now. Latvia had already modestly set 2008 as a likely date for switching to…

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Will We Fly Almost for Free? Airbus

Will We Fly Almost for Free?

As assured by the director of North European and Baltic routes of the Irish company Ryanair (low-cost carrier) Karl Hegstadius, in about ten years airline tickets will become practically free. With a…

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Airline News (Abroad No. 341) Airbus

Airline News (Abroad No. 341)

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Tourism

Economical Vacation Options

Is it possible to go abroad if you are willing to pay no more than $500 per person for a tour package? Considering that summer is a time for family travel, the answer to this mercantile question is…

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Airbus

Euro ticket should be clear

European Commissioner for Transport Jacques Barrot intends to discuss at a European Commission meeting a draft law aimed at providing consumers with access to more objective information on airfare…

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Winners Are Judged Sport

Winners Are Judged

Last week in Rome, hearings were resumed in the corruption case in Italian football. Despite the victory of the 'Azzurri' at the World Cup, thirteen members of the national team, representing…

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Gourmet Travels Tourism

Gourmet Travels

Any travel is not only interesting places and adventures. It is also an introduction to the cuisine of other countries. Because it is impossible to feel a country without trying its dishes — festive…

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Work and Travel Education

Work and Travel

You don't have to guess for long to answer the question of which foreign programs are the most popular among students. Of course, those that allow you to travel around the world almost for free, and…

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Full banking SWIFT Money

Full banking SWIFT

Officials of the US Treasury Department never tire of racking their brains over how to contribute to the fight against international terrorism and other unlawful phenomena. To paraphrase an old…

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Real estate

Real Estate with a View to Residency

Several years ago, before the law allowing foreigners to purchase Turkish real estate came into force, Turkey's Ministry of Construction conducted a survey among our tourists – would they like to…

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The Dutch got carried away with democracy News

The Dutch got carried away with democracy

The Hague Court (Netherlands) refused to ban the pedophile party created in May of this year. Now, after the November elections in the Netherlands, the country's main pedophiles will be able to enter…

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News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 340)

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Second Lebanese Front News

Second Lebanese Front

The abduction of two IDF soldiers on the Israeli-Lebanese border forced Jerusalem to open a 'second front' - simultaneously with the operation in the south, in Gaza, hostilities began on the northern…

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News

Tsunami Again Strikes Java

The tsunami in Indonesia killed more than 250 people, including foreigners. More than a hundred more people are listed as missing. The waves caused by the earthquake destroyed hotels, restaurants…

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News

Divers drown in the Red Sea

On Monday it became known about the death of three Russian diving instructors in Egypt. According to an eyewitness, on July 14 in Hurghada, during one of the dives into the waters of the Red Sea in…

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Thailand is more dangerous than Africa Tourism

Thailand is more dangerous than Africa

Midsummer is the height of the holiday season. Everyone is actively buying up package tours and trips at agencies, anticipating the delights of a vacation paradise. And few of them are seriously…

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Children — the past of Germans? Everyday life

Children — the past of Germans?

Germans do not want to have children, and the authorities' attempts to reverse this trend look rather unconvincing. Especially when the authorities pretend that the issue of procreation has nothing…

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Sport

Fewer injuries and no doping

At the football championship in Germany, far fewer players were injured than during the previous World Cup. This was due to stricter refereeing and good physical fitness of the players.

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