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Archive — May 2007

Eccentricities for Travelers Tourism

Eccentricities for Travelers

Every year, travel publications and websites conduct surveys of their readers and users, asking them questions about hotels, trains, and planes. Especially about hotels. And then they draw…

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News

Czech Republic Introduces 'Green Cards' for Foreigners

The Government of the Czech Republic has prepared a rather radical innovation regarding the employment procedure of foreigners in the country. Perhaps as early as next year, citizens of non-EU…

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Let people work Work

Let people work

The International Labour Organization has published a report on discrimination in the workplace. This 166-page report discusses all existing types of human rights violations committed in the…

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Cuba intends to spend more than $185 million on tourism News

Cuba intends to spend more than $185 million on tourism

Cuban authorities are allocating more than $185 million for the reconstruction of 200 tourism infrastructure facilities - hotels, parks, golf and yacht clubs. The tourism development plan, designed…

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News

Main news of the issue (abroad #382)

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America May Be Facing a Decline Immigration

America May Be Facing a Decline

American conservative journalist and politician Patrick Buchanan is sometimes called a modern-day Spengler. He earned this title thanks to his 2002 book 'The Death of the West,' which is thematically…

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Work

Poles leave to work in Europe

The Polish labor market is considered a kind of phenomenon in the European Union. Unemployment here is the highest in the EU (about 3.5 million people out of 30 million working-age population), while…

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Returnees Immigration

Returnees

The Italian port of Trieste, located on the Adriatic coast, locals for decades gloomily called the 'gateway to nowhere'. A few kilometers away lay the border of communist Yugoslavia, and the Iron…

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Paying Off the Inspector Auto tour

Paying Off the Inspector

Recently, EU countries, frightened by the increase in road accidents, as if by agreement, have sharply raised the bar for fines for drivers. The drivers' reaction was predictable: now they are…

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Scrap Metal for Rent Auto tour

Scrap Metal for Rent

Renting cars abroad can be dangerous. According to monitoring data of rental firms in Europe, one in four rental cars turned out to be faulty. In recent years, our tourists have taken to traveling…

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Plombir, Sorbet, Creamy Gourmet guide

Plombir, Sorbet, Creamy

Ice cream is ice cream, even in Africa. In good weather, it's a self-evident companion. A children's treat. Although it depends. Just a hundred years ago, it was quite difficult to imagine that ice…

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Auto tour

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A Wonder of the World Has Yellowed Curiosities

A Wonder of the World Has Yellowed

The famous Indian mausoleum Taj Mahal, which shone white for centuries, has turned yellow. Indian authorities blame industrialists for damaging the monument. And while they comply with the country's…

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Immigration

Cultural Traditions of Sleeper Layers

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation obliging all migrants to learn Russian. From now on, only those who receive a certificate of successful passing of the exam will…

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News

Europeans do not want to work with migrants and minorities

The International Labour Organization has published a report on discrimination in labour relations in Europe. According to its data, immigrants and representatives of minorities are the most strongly…

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Russian businessmen defend migrant workers Work

Russian businessmen defend migrant workers

Having experienced the arbitrariness of local officials when processing applications for foreign labor during the first five months of the new migration policy, Russian business has matured to…

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News

All fingers will be required for entry into the US

Almost all foreigners intending to visit the US will be forced to undergo fingerprinting of all 10 fingers, the US State Department reported. Instead of taking fingerprints of only two fingers, as is…

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Main news of the issue (abroad №381) News

Main news of the issue (abroad №381)

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Foreigners to Be Sent from Ghettos to School Desks Immigration

Foreigners to Be Sent from Ghettos to School Desks

The working group of the Federal Government of Germany presented a plan for the development of language and integration courses for foreigners and a list of sanctions for those who evade the courses…

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Work

Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of Ukraine informs

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Real estate

We Need a Turkish Shore

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has set his sights on one of the most expensive castles in the world - the famous 'Lion Palace'. Note that this elite property is located not in London, but in…

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Fashionable tourism destinations Tourism

Fashionable tourism destinations

Fashion in leisure changes as invariably as it does in heels and skirts. The day before yesterday, the latest buzzword was 'Canary Islands'; yesterday, everyone rushed to the mysterious coast of Goa…

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Progress Against Stress Health

Progress Against Stress

After a long winter, a tired body insistently demands recovery. Experts say that it is enough to undergo a week-long course of thalassotherapy once every six months to forget about stress and chronic…

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Where Will Language Take You? Education

Where Will Language Take You?

Do you want to devote your vacation to learning foreign languages, but don't know which option to choose? We offer the best ways to combine business with pleasure with something unusual.

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