US President George Bush said he intends to request additional appropriations from Congress for education reform in the amount of one billion dollars. Thus, Reuters reports, budgetary funding for…
Australian agency IDP Australia has published its forecast for the development of the international education market.
The Russian State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill amending the laws 'On Education' and 'On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education'.
"Euro - the ruin of Europe" - a book with this title was published in Germany. Its author, Günter Hannich, who is often called an economic populist, frightens the reader with the most dire…
Christmas trade in Sweden broke all previous records. This is evidenced by statistical data from the Swedish news agency TT.
By a decision of the French government, tobacco prices have been increased by 15%. This is the most significant price increase in the last ten years. An ordinary pack of cigarettes now costs four…
Polish visas, which are supposedly to be introduced for Ukrainian citizens in the summer of 2003, will be cheap, multiple-entry, and accessible, and the visa regime itself will be flexible. This was…
The British government has announced radical measures to combat truant schoolchildren. And also with their parents, reports the BBC.
The transition from the old year to the new 2003 has happened. The fact has taken place - if, of course, one ignores the old styles, the canons of Eastern and other exotic calendars. This transition…
Oxford University Press intends to make available online all of its linguistic dictionaries and reference books on the disciplines studied at Oxford.
According to a survey conducted among a thousand British schoolchildren aged 7-16, the young generation knows much more about the Internet than about books.
President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Dutchman Wim Duisenberg, believes that "sooner or later, the three European Union member states that have so far not wanted to introduce the euro will…
Tourists who came to Austria this year for Christmas and New Year were surprised that Austrians strolling along the streets were paying for all sorts of small items like mulled wine or sausages not…
In Nikita Mikhalkov's film "The Barber of Siberia" there is a scene of a romantic meeting between a Russian cadet and a young American woman in the carriage of a train traveling through the Siberian…
Starting from the new year, a new system for checking passenger baggage has been introduced at US airports. Now, to avoid trouble, foreign air travelers will have to pack their suitcases and bags the…
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of the People's Republic of China has become more accessible to tourists from all over the world. As NEWSru reports, the Chinese government has amended the rules for…
New Zealand has abolished the visa regime for citizens of the Czech Republic. Thus, from January 1, 2003, Czech tourists can stay in New Zealand for three months without a visa, reports Radio Prague.
Russia proposed to Ukraine to introduce from July 1, 2003 a new procedure for mutual trips of citizens of the two countries, implying the availability of a foreign passport when crossing the state…
From now on, illegally crossing the protected state border of Turkmenistan without established documents and proper permission is punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 10 years. This decision was made…
In France, night shelters will be opened for the homeless, where people can take refuge from severe frost. The police prefect of the French capital, Jean-Paul Proust, by his order launched a campaign…
In the United States, a prize has been awarded for the strangest warnings placed on products. According to local laws, Gazeta.Ru reports, if a buyer suffers damage from using a product and the…
British immigration services have resumed document checks at Prague's Ruzyne airport for passengers flying to the UK.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants have lined up at the embassies of their countries in the United Arab Emirates to take advantage of the amnesty declared by the authorities, receive assistance and leave…
German politicians have once again discovered the problem of late resettlers. As Russkaya Germania notes, this happens every time on the eve of elections over the past ten years. Every party wants to…