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Archive — August 2007

Weightlessness in Its 'Pure Form' Curiosities

Weightlessness in Its 'Pure Form'

The 'richest' tourists on the planet, who can afford a week-long tour to the International Space Station, are entitled to have almost any of their whims fulfilled. Including a spacewalk. A…

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Plague Vacation Health

Plague Vacation

According to the World Health Organization, 50 to 75% of tourists traveling to the tropics fall ill or sustain injuries. As Novye Izvestia notes, this has become especially relevant for our…

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Airbus

Hong Kong recognized as world's best airport

Moscow's Domodedovo Airport took third place among Eastern European airports in the annual ranking by British research company Skytrax. First and second places went to the airports of Prague and…

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Where are students made? Education

Where are students made?

No matter how brilliantly you finish school, no matter how well you know a foreign language, when you come to study in a foreign country, you will inevitably face difficulties. The notorious…

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Everyday life

Britons Misbehave Due to Cheap Tickets

Cheap air tickets and alcohol are the main reasons for Britons' bad behavior abroad, according to a report by the UK Foreign Office. Recently, a Greek court convicted a British tourist who bit a…

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EU to Simplify Rules for Carrying Liquids in Hand Luggage News

EU to Simplify Rules for Carrying Liquids in Hand Luggage

In the member states of the European Union, new rules will come into force this autumn that will allow passengers from third countries to carry liquids in hand luggage purchased at airports outside…

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News

Top news of the issue (foreign #393)

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Who is afraid of 'Wojciech with a screwdriver'? Work

Who is afraid of 'Wojciech with a screwdriver'?

When on May 1, 2004, 10 countries joined the European Union at once, this unprecedented enlargement in the history of the EU, dubbed by journalists as the 'big bang', brought, in addition to joy and…

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News

Arrival of Eastern Europeans Worries German Officials

Additional liberalization of the German labor market will lead to increased unemployment but will solve the problem of a shortage of skilled workers - this is what the head of the Federal Employment…

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Europe bets on 'blue card' Work

Europe bets on 'blue card'

To solve the problem of labor shortage, the EU is introducing a 'blue card' – a document that will allow labor migrants from non-EU countries to move freely within the EU in search of work. The…

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Immigration

Unprecedented Amnesty in a Single City

While many American cities and states are tightening anti-immigration laws and conducting raids to identify illegal migrants, Connecticut, on the contrary, has decided to 'amnesty' them. They will be…

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Real estate

European Exclusive

My home is a medieval castle... Isn't that a fantastic statement? No, because today any compatriot who can finance the deal and maintain the costly estate in the future can become the owner of…

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The Most Photographed Place on Earth Tourism

The Most Photographed Place on Earth

Flowers do not take root in our home, no matter how many we buy. All that remains as a legacy is a pot of soil and a withered shoot with a forgotten name. Perhaps that is why, when we set off for the…

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Difficult Return Immigration

Difficult Return

The Kaliningrad region has actively joined the program to facilitate the return of former compatriots. But the stated goal of attracting 300,000 migrants over five years looks overly ambitious.

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From botvinya to gazpacho: first freshness for first courses Gourmet guide

From botvinya to gazpacho: first freshness for first courses

Summer is the best time for cold soups. First, it's hot, a spoonful of hearty soup doesn't really go down. And you look at other printanières and bouillabaisses with some fatigue. Second, now…

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How to Get into Cambridge Education

How to Get into Cambridge

For the first time, the most famous university in the United Kingdom has lifted the veil on the admission requirements for undergraduate programs. Cambridge has published on its website a list of the…

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Real estate

Investor Buys Up European Resorts

Having decided to buy a house or apartment in a resort town, our compatriots increasingly prefer the Balkan countries over our Black Sea coast. However, if the goal is not just a vacation but a…

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Everyday life

Excess weight is easy to catch

Blame for one's own extra kilograms can now be safely shifted onto friends and relatives. American scientists have found that obesity is transmitted from person to person. True, not by airborne…

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Buying Souvenirs Tourism

Buying Souvenirs

If you prefer to vacation abroad, or even spend all holidays there, the problem of choosing a gift disappears by itself. As TRAVELonline.ru notes, you can buy interesting souvenirs as gifts in any…

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Oxbridge proved invincible Education

Oxbridge proved invincible

It's a common thing in the world of education: some criticize rankings of educational institutions, others compile them, and still others criticize others' rankings and compile their own. On one…

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Tax on Added Calories Everyday life

Tax on Added Calories

The fight against obesity in the UK seems to be entering a new stage, where, according to official statistics, one in four residents suffers from cardiovascular diseases most often triggered by…

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God Ganesha Left All Alone Curiosities

God Ganesha Left All Alone

Elephants, revered in India as a symbol of wisdom and prosperity, have become unwelcome guests in the country's business center, Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Authorities announced a ban on keeping…

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Hungarian-style Mix Tourism

Hungarian-style Mix

Among the four most famous European lakes in the world (Lake Geneva, Balaton, Loch Ness, and Heviz), two lakes are in Hungary. The country, located quite far from the sea coast, attracts millions of…

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Prospects for Those Studying Abroad Education

Prospects for Those Studying Abroad

Studying abroad has long ceased to seem like an unattainable dream or the prerogative of only the very wealthy inhabitants of the planet. And - more importantly - the choice of a foreign study…

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