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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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Personal experience

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…

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Immigration

Deceivers Are Not Liked in the USA

Generally speaking, deceiving is bad. And deceiving government officials is also dangerous, warns 'Inostranets'. Especially when it comes to employees of the consular section of the US Embassy, in…

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Personal experience

Myths of Silicon Village

"Russian American Dream" is not quite the same as the "American Dream" in the original. As a rule, initially Russians' desires focus on satisfying material wants – a car, a house, credit cards.

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Country guide

The Land of Maple Syrup

"Oh, what a great country Canada is," Zhora Gershwin told me over a mug of ginger beer in Toronto. Zhora emigrated to Canada three years ago and therefore had the right to discuss the advantages and…

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Tourism

How a Tourist Can Save Money

Besides total economy, there are several partial savings that appear at those stages of travel when you need to pay for it. So, you can reduce the cost of a trip by saving on: visa, transportation…

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Personal experience

The Nightmare of the Two-Thirds System

I think that a second-class railway carriage with three-berth compartments is absent from Prague's 'Museum of Medieval Torture' solely due to chronological inconsistency. Of course, the carriage is…

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