Tales and True Stories of Silicon Village
Dmitry Kokhmanyuk graduated from the Cybernetics Department of Kyiv University and left for the USA in 1996. For the third year he has been working as a network system administrator at a software…
Archive — January 2010
Personal experience
Personal experience
Culture Shock
Psychologists have long noted that a person entering a foreign cultural environment initially experiences complete euphoria, which soon gives way to an emotional downturn. They have named this…
Work
HOW TO BECOME A SEA WOLF Part 2
In the USSR, the purchase of ships and the selection of personnel were handled by shipping companies – that is, the state itself. Now, as in all maritime powers, crewing companies are actively…
Immigration
Ecuador: Editorial Summary
"Zagranitsa" begins to acquaint readers with non-traditional emigration destinations. The first series of such publications will be devoted to Ecuador. Today – a first acquaintance with a country…
Everyday life
Love and Marriage According to the Laws of the Torah
From the time of Turkish rule to the present day, only religious marriages are performed in Israel, in accordance with the laws of the country's existing religions. Marriage and divorce for Jews can…
Work
HOW TO BECOME A SEA WOLF, Part 1
Of all our compatriots who – according to official reports – worked abroad last year, more than half are captains, navigators, boatswains, and engine operators of the merchant fleet. Plus several…
Country guide
The Fifth Point on the World Map
The fifth point of any questionnaire (nationality) in Soviet times caused the greatest difficulties for a substantial part of our compatriots. Write 'Jew' in this line – and the path to a prestigious…
Immigration
Aliyah – The Technology of Return
For thousands of Jews scattered around the world, moving to Israel is not emigration, not leaving home, but on the contrary – returning home. One could consider this often-heard statement beautiful…
Personal experience
"Clients" and Workers
Builder from Kherson region Viktor KLYNKO worked in the Czech Republic – a country that, as is well known, has been hosting a huge number of "temporary labor emigrants" from Ukraine for years…
Country guide
Theme of the Issue – Canada
"Land of the Maple Leaf." "Land of Blue Lakes." "So much like Russia..." "Pancakes with maple syrup." What else? Hurons – the last of the Mohicans. A good neighbor – that same America... That's about…
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Work
Fishing for a 'Lure'
Last winter, a pleasant woman came to the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. She represented the Kyiv firm 'Nikas Art Gallery'. However, the 'gallerist' brought to the Galicians not an exhibition of immortal…
Everyday life
UkrInurCollegium Searches for Heirs
This guy with the simple Ukrainian name John was not so simple after all. Representatives of the diaspora in Australia, for example, for reasons known only to them, venture to suggest that before…
Immigration
When You Need Professional Help
People planning to move abroad for permanent residence often formulate their desire in a very simple way: 'I want to go to Canada' (America, Germany, Argentina, etc.). But not many really imagine…
Immigration
Kostitsyn. A Minute of Silence
Many are leaving nowadays. But emigrants of the category to which composer Yevgeny Kostitsyn belongs do not often apply to immigration services. Because there are not too many of them in Ukraine, as…
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Tourism
Travel with a Discount
In a difficult time for the country, travel agencies behaved nobly: many did not even ask clients who had purchased tours in advance to pay the difference caused by the dollar surge, working at a…