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Archive — February 2007

A Resort for All Seasons Tourism

A Resort for All Seasons

Recently, Ukrainians, having grown tired of inexpensive seaside holidays, have been increasingly turning their attention to tours in Europe, and one of the most dynamically developing destinations…

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Foundation of Success Education

Foundation of Success

Do you want to become a student of a British or American university without having a full secondary school diploma from an English-language school? The absence of this document needs to be…

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German ticking time bombs Auto tour

German ticking time bombs

It is believed that the best place to buy a used car is Germany. But the Germans themselves call their cars 'ticking time bombs'. According to Gazeta.Ru, every fifth car in Germany fails its…

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Agent of Indigenous Nationality Curiosities

Agent of Indigenous Nationality

The instinct and keen eye of American Indians, passing down from generation to generation the skills of trackers and hunters, will be officially used to protect US borders. The Immigration and…

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Great Europe, but nowhere to smoke News

Great Europe, but nowhere to smoke

The image of a smoker is out of fashion these days. And if it is not directly banned, it already invites public censure. Yet it seems quite recently smokers and smoking accessories were constant…

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Main news of the issue (abroad №368) News

Main news of the issue (abroad №368)

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Emigrants Are Brought Out of Hiding Immigration

Emigrants Are Brought Out of Hiding

On January 15, 2007, three documents came into force that radically changed the situation regarding the status of foreign citizens in Russia. However, it is worth noting right away that those wishing…

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Major Tintoretto, Major Pompidou Tourism

Major Tintoretto, Major Pompidou

In February, the Prado Museum in Madrid will host the first major exhibition of the famous Italian painter Tintoretto in 70 years. In addition, as reported by Gazeta.Ru, the same month the Centre…

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Education

Time to Prepare for Summer Studies

It seems real winter has just arrived, but educational circles are already thinking about summer. And for good reason: choosing summer language courses for children and teenagers is a responsible…

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German Quality of Education Education

German Quality of Education

German higher education is invariably associated with the word «free». And although recently some universities have begun to gradually introduce tuition fees, their popularity among foreigners has…

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News

London to Ask for Fingerprints

Foreign citizens arriving in the United Kingdom may soon be asked to leave fingerprints. This is one of the proposals contained in the new 'Borders' bill, the draft of which is to be published…

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Analysis

Europe: Division by Multiplication

Last year, the population of the Republic of Montenegro decided in a national referendum that henceforth this small country would exist as an independent state. Another piece of the composite…

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Immigration

Russia promised not to impose sanctions on Ukrainians

The competent authorities of the Russian Federation will not impose sanctions on Ukrainians who are in Russia without registration, if their period of stay in Russia does not exceed 90 days and they…

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Tourism

Vatican turns out to be the most criminal country in the world

The German magazine Der Spiegel has called the Vatican the most criminal state in the world. The publication draws its conclusion based on crime statistics released by Vatican Attorney General Nicola…

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Why Does England Need Greenwich? Curiosities

Why Does England Need Greenwich?

In the British House of Commons, debate has begun on a bill to switch from Greenwich Mean Time to Central European Time. According to the author of the document, MP Tim Yeo, as well as the…

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Flight to America Immigration

Flight to America

In 2006, the United States granted refugee status and issued permission to relocate to the United States to 13,000 citizens of post-Soviet states, mostly Meskhetian Turks living in Russia's Krasnodar…

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News

Compensation payments to Nazi victims completed

The German federal foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' together with the Ukrainian national foundation 'Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation' is completing individual payments to…

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Half the world fled Immigration

Half the world fled

The status of a refugee is defined by the UN Convention adopted in 1951. This document stipulates that a refugee may be considered a person who has left his homeland because of war and/or experiences…

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Neighbors Confused by Russian Rules News

Neighbors Confused by Russian Rules

It seems that the official Russian authorities, who have zealously set about bringing order to markets and labor migration in general, will have to answer questions not only from their own…

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Real estate

Housing in the Homeland of Ferenc Liszt

A person who has at least once opened a school history textbook knows that Hungary was once part of the Austro-Hungarian state, which means Austria is not far away. Moreover, any compatriot older…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 367) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 367)

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Wild Vikings and Tons of Candy Rain Tourism

Wild Vikings and Tons of Candy Rain

In February, Europe briefly loses its mind: a noisy wave of carnivals sweeps through large and small cities. It is known that Europeans hold carnivals not so much for tourists as for themselves…

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Real estate

Germans buy up real estate in the US

The American National Association of Realtors compiled a portrait of a typical home buyer, analyzing transactions from 1995 to 2005. It turned out that foreigners bought $41 billion worth of American…

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Everyday life

UK Residents Don't Consider Themselves British

According to recent research, UK citizens feel less British than a decade ago, and residents of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland increasingly associate their nationality with their homeland…

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