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Archive — April 2009

Technology

Buying Air and Train Tickets

Tourism, business trips, traveling to visit relatives - in any of these cases we use air travel, so it is important to organize this flight in such a way as to arrive with the maximum level of…

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Visas

Italy to Temporarily Leave Schengen

Italy will suspend issuance of Schengen visas for the duration of the G8 summit in order to ensure security measures in the central region of Abruzzo, where the meeting is being moved from the island…

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Tours to Bali - heavenly delight Tourism

Tours to Bali - heavenly delight

The choice of vacation spots is now very diverse. Consider, for example, a trip to Indonesia, to the friendly warm islands of the Indian Ocean, with its exotic, incomparable tropical nature.

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Real estate

Next to Dracula

The boom in the Romanian real estate market started relatively recently, before the country's accession to the European Union (2007). Local companies, as well as Scandinavian, English and Israeli…

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Finances Pressure Students Education

Finances Pressure Students

The main stumbling block for those who decided to get a higher education in Germany may be the financial side of the issue. As Deutsche Welle notes, tuition fees often become a significant burden on…

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Tourism

Weekend in Poznań – Half Price

The Poznań Tourist Organization together with the city administration, hotels, restaurants and museums has prepared a special promotion. On June 13 and 14, an unforgettable weekend in the city can be…

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Affordable Vacation Tourism

Affordable Vacation

Today, as the financial and economic crisis carries out a "purge" of travel companies, small firms are leaving the market, often failing to meet their obligations. Therefore, when choosing a travel…

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Everyday life

Vienna – Best City for Living and Working

The Austrian capital has been named the most convenient city for living and working. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by Mercer. The data obtained in the global quality of life…

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Tourism

Travel to Mexico Not Recommended

Russia's Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko recommends Russians refrain from traveling to Mexico, where dozens have died of so-called swine flu.

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New Mecca of Tourism – The Baltics Tourism

New Mecca of Tourism – The Baltics

The Baltics as one of the most popular destinations for world tourism and recreation. The unique climate and nature, combined with many architectural monuments, will leave the most unforgettable…

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Tourism

Best hotels named in Cyprus

The best hotel in Cyprus in March 2009 was Columbia Beach, located in the village of Pissouri. On the popular hotel booking site Booking.com it scored 9.4 points out of a possible 10. Second place…

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Work

Belgium to Let in 'Polish Plumber'

Belgium will open its national labor market on May 1 to workers from Eastern European countries that joined the European Union in May 2004. According to the newspaper 'Libre Belgique', this decision…

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Work

Migrants find it hard to find work in Moscow

More than a third of migrants who came to the Russian capital to earn money have been unable to find work. Such data was provided by the head of the Moscow migration service department, Fedor…

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Tourism

Seoul introduces taxis for foreigners

In the capital of South Korea, special taxis for foreigners will start operating on May 1, 2009. According to the Moscow office of the Korea Tourism Organization, the Seoul administration made this…

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Swiss Hospitality Education

Swiss Hospitality

Hospitality is not only our national characteristic, but also a huge industry, where working is difficult but interesting. Irina Yemelyanova, a second-year student at the Swiss IHTTI School of Hotel…

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Death as a Reason for Fiesta Tourism

Death as a Reason for Fiesta

In some countries, ideas about Death are quite exotic. As 'Voyage and Leisure' notes, sometimes travelers who witness folk festivities do not immediately realize what is the reason for the locals'…

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A Step to a British University Education

A Step to a British University

Graduates of domestic schools lack a year of study to become first-year students at a British university. This gap can be closed in various ways. Let us examine them using specific educational…

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Migrants to be taught Russian language Immigration

Migrants to be taught Russian language

The Federation Council has sent to the State Duma a bill designed, in the senators' opinion, to reduce the level of tension in Russians' attitudes toward migrants from neighboring countries…

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Aircraft to Allow Liquids Onboard Airbus

Aircraft to Allow Liquids Onboard

Britain announced its intention to lift restrictions on carrying liquids in aircraft cabins. As The Times reports, citing a high-ranking source in the government, lifting the bans for several…

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Education

How They Gnaw the Granite of Science

It's one thing to read descriptions of the best foreign schools and universities in advertising brochures, and another to face the real-life trials of those who went abroad to gnaw the granite of…

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Tourism

People Move to Live Underground

Most cities of the world, with their skyscrapers and small houses, wide straight avenues and narrow winding streets, are located on the surface of the earth. But sometimes there, below, at a depth of…

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Education

Life and education abroad

To go study abroad, you don't have to be very wealthy. The educational portal Ucheba.Ru has prepared a short overview of affordable options.

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The Return of the Prodigal Gastarbeiter Immigration

The Return of the Prodigal Gastarbeiter

The economic crisis is forcing migrant workers to return to their homeland. Compared to last autumn, their number in Russia has decreased by more than 13%. The Federal Migration Service (FMS) says…

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Visas

Croatia will allow entry without visas

The Croatian authorities have decided to cancel the visa regime for Ukrainian citizens from May to October 2009. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

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