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Archive — February 2008

Preparing for a Language Immersion Education

Preparing for a Language Immersion

Foreign holiday programs are a wonderful opportunity to combine study and leisure. First, as Ucheba.Ru notes, you will immerse yourself in a language environment, which will help you quickly overcome…

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Visas

Schengen Expansion Disappoints Ukrainian Citizens

Europe remains locked - this is the main conclusion of participants in the round table 'Schengen Expansion - Consequences for Ukraine,' organized by the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign…

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Israeli real estate Real estate

Israeli real estate

For a long time, Israel was famous for low housing prices. And not only low, but also virtually non-rising - from 1995 to the present day, real estate prices in Israel either stagnated or even…

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Schengen Targets Fingerprints Visas

Schengen Targets Fingerprints

European Union wants to collect fingerprints of all foreigners entering and leaving the Schengen area. According to Gazeta.Ru, the biometric data will be compiled into a single database and made…

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An Immigration-Political Affair Immigration

An Immigration-Political Affair

For some time, Canada's Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration was not subjected to particular attacks from the opposition. Nevertheless, as Russky Toronto notes, criticizing its work in a country…

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Controversial Immigration Immigration

Controversial Immigration

There is no dispute that the need to change the rules for naturalizing immigrants in Germany has been long overdue. According to general opinion, notes the German magazine "Partner," the existing…

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By 2050, one in five Americans will be an immigrant Immigration

By 2050, one in five Americans will be an immigrant

By 2050, the US population will reach 438 million people, with one in five Americans being an immigrant. This forecast was made by the influential research company Pew Research Center, USA Today…

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Immigration

French authorities to help immigrant suburbs

French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently presented his 'Hope for the Suburbs' plan at the Élysée Palace, which provides for a series of long-term measures to help residents of the outskirts. Over…

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Real estate

Home in the land of Cervantes

Despite rising prices and the emergence of new points of attraction for wealthy people worldwide, the value of Spain in the eyes of compatriots looking for real estate abroad has not diminished over…

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Tourism

Exotic Countries

A trip to exotic countries is especially tempting in winter, when after a minimum of seven hours of flight you can find yourself on a sun-drenched coast of a tropical resort and feel all the delights…

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Saharan Sand Tourism

Saharan Sand

There are countries that are obviously uninteresting to anyone. For all my conscious life, I numbered Tunisia among them. I thought that people go there only because they don't have enough money to…

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Education

The most expensive universities in the world

American magazine Forbes published a list of the most expensive universities in the world. As the publication notes, the list does not include American Harvard, Princeton and Yale from the…

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Education

«Pechkyu, Lavochkyu and Co.»

Demand for education is growing worldwide. And demand gives rise to... that's right, supply. But there are supplies and supplies. Some suppliers are honest: they offer certified products with a…

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Scandinavians Massively Converting to Islam Everyday life

Scandinavians Massively Converting to Islam

Over Stockholm, Helsinki, and Copenhagen, the drawn-out calls of muezzins resound; the courts of Northern European cities, overshadowed by green banners, conduct cases according to Sharia law; and…

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Curiosities

Brits dismantle houses for spare parts

Brits have found a way to offset falling property prices: owners of homes for sale are clearing them out completely, removing even such 'integral' items as kitchen sinks and built-in light fixtures…

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Visas

US to demand data on all air passengers

In the near future, a procedure will be introduced whereby all travelers to the US will have to obtain an online entry permit before receiving a visa.

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Airbus

Israel tightens security measures on aircraft

Israel's Ministry of Transport has ordered all airlines to tighten security measures on aircraft to prevent terrorist attacks, reports Yediot Ahronot. The Israelis were forced to take such measures…

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Airbus

The safest airlines in the world named

Aero International magazine, citing data from the JACDEC accident research bureau, has published a list of the 60 safest airlines in the world over the past 35 years.

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Two Banks of One River Education

Two Banks of One River

Today there are about 10,000 business schools in the world. But, as Kariera notes, the best of them are still concentrated in Europe and the USA. Where to go for an MBA diploma: to the homeland of…

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Airbus

IATA prepares to abolish paper airline tickets

The International Air Transport Association IATA has placed on its website's main page a countdown timer to midnight on May 31 – the date set for stopping the issuance of paper airline tickets and…

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With Your Own Sharia into a Foreign Monastery Everyday life

With Your Own Sharia into a Foreign Monastery

The introduction of sharia into the daily life of British society appears to be a matter of the very near future. At least, as reported by Vremya Novostei, both secular and religious authorities in…

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Britain Loses Its Roots and Mind Curiosities

Britain Loses Its Roots and Mind

Like France and the Netherlands, the UK is soon going to introduce a mandatory exam for foreigners wishing to obtain residency. As reported by IA Rosbalt, they will test knowledge of English, as well…

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The Cheapest Mobile Phone Will Appear in India Technology

The Cheapest Mobile Phone Will Appear in India

India, which recently launched the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, priced at $2,360, is set to produce the world's cheapest mobile phone as well.

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Immigration

Britain to tighten citizenship rules

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