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Archive — July 2007

Guardians of the Sea Tourism

Guardians of the Sea

Travel is always an adventure. Especially if it is a journey to the sea. On the seashore, the traveler awaits amazing discoveries: mysterious grottoes, wind-carved rocks, secret paths to deserted…

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Travel Not for Everyone Tourism

Travel Not for Everyone

Unlike respectable citizens who book tours at travel agencies and then enjoy doing nothing on beaches or sightseeing, these people prefer to rely only on themselves. After all, each of them has their…

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Redskin America Country guide

Redskin America

The term 'redskin' appeared among British colonists who settled in New England. They neighbored the Beothuk Indian tribe (now extinct), whose warriors painted their bodies with ochre. As Washington…

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Work

Instead of a permit - a visa with the right to work

Citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia will be able to work in Poland once every six months for three months without a special permit, reports the Polish publication Gazeta Wyborcza. As informed by…

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The world has entered the era of mobility Immigration

The world has entered the era of mobility

It has become common to hear that we live in a world characterized by globalization. However, not everyone understands that the process of globalization proceeds in stages. As UN Secretary-General…

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Transparent Passengers Airbus

Transparent Passengers

The German federal government has published a plan according to which the police will soon be obliged to check the data of airline passengers from countries outside the European Union. The federal…

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MBA Through the Eyes of Admitted Students Education

MBA Through the Eyes of Admitted Students

Finding a place for a summer internship is one of the first serious challenges for business school students. Stories of how it happens are in the next series of the documentary series "MBA Through…

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Ukraine Imposes Currency Border News

Ukraine Imposes Currency Border

Ukrainian authorities intend to set a limit of funds, without which foreigners will not be allowed into the country. A resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine states that upon entering the…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 391) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 391)

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Immigration

Turks refuse to take German language exam

The recent integration summit in Berlin was the second forum where problems of integrating foreigners living in the country into German society were addressed. Exactly one year ago, such a meeting of…

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Into the air straight from the jacuzzi Airbus

Into the air straight from the jacuzzi

VIP passenger of German airline Lufthansa, Reinhold Alt, arrived at the airport in Frankfurt several hours before departure. No, not because he was afraid of getting stuck in traffic. But for a…

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Female Students Demand Horn Equality Curiosities

Female Students Demand Horn Equality

The ghost of feminism has reached the northern Spanish town of Pamplona, known for its rather extravagant pastime of encierro – running of the crowd in front of a herd of bulls through narrow…

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The main criterion is knowledge Education

The main criterion is knowledge

A typical American university is a small town (campus) that, in addition to colleges and dormitories, has a hotel, a clinic, several sports complexes, libraries, numerous cafes, etc.

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Country guide

Native Americans

More than just Native American blood flows in the veins of eight out of every ten American Indians. According to U.S. law, a person can be considered an 'Indian' if they prove that one of their…

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Buddhas live among us Tourism

Buddhas live among us

Crossing almost the entire country from west to east, I traveled from the Malabar Coast of the Arabian Sea towards the Bay of Bengal. To a small town called Amaravati, where, at the same time, tens…

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Cyprus and Malta to Become More Expensive News

Cyprus and Malta to Become More Expensive

From January 1, 2008, Cyprus and Malta will switch to the euro for domestic settlements. In June, EU leaders approved the entry of these countries into the eurozone. The decision was recently…

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News

Top stories of the issue (abroad No. 390)

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Workers Leave Former Soviet Bloc Countries Work

Workers Leave Former Soviet Bloc Countries

In recent months, Poland has sent "talent hunters" to countries such as China and India, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia have launched programs to recruit workers in Ukraine, Belarus, Tajikistan…

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Real estate

Our Client Abroad

It so happens that the image of our real estate owner abroad is formed here at home not by specialized or even business media, but by TV programs and illustrated magazines. Information is presented…

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Education

Diploma to Get a Price Tag

After statements by Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen on the need to introduce tuition fees for students from countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), a discussion about a possible…

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News

Bulgarian Nurses to Be Saved by Large Compensation

Two pieces of news have come from Libya regarding the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for deliberately infecting several hundred children with HIV. The bad…

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Star-Spangled Wars Curiosities

Star-Spangled Wars

Before the start of the electoral battle for the US presidency, the issue of the American flag takes on special significance. The pride of many American patriots is wounded by the fact that China…

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Migrants Will Not Be Left Without Supervision Work

Migrants Will Not Be Left Without Supervision

At the end of August, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia plans to submit to the government a draft law that will outline the concept of 'managed migration'. This was reported by Sergei…

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Money

By Hamburger Standards

First, people invented money to calculate the cost of goods. At the end of the 20th century, some goods became so universal that, on the contrary, they began to be used to calculate the value of…

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