Ups and downs, but predominance of the former over the latter - such is the historical dynamics of solving the housing issue in the European Union countries. Thanks to this trend, writes the magazine…
The other day, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ukraine celebrated the “birthday” of a new book - the phrasebook dictionary “Ukrainian-Czech Parallels in Texts and Situations.” The presentation…
This city was built on marshy islets in a shallow lagoon with murky water. It was founded during the era of the Great Migration of Peoples, when barbarians came and the world turned upside down…
Russian police officers are being deprived of one of their illegal sources of income. Only patrol and post service officers will be able to check citizens' documents, and only in cases of extreme…
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is failing to cope with the flow of illegal immigrants and cannot deport foreigners, among whom there may be terrorists. This is reported by…
Russia intends to outlaw human trafficking, which has led to hundreds of young women going abroad as objects of sexual exploitation.
In March, everyone is busy with the usual business: a bloody battle with the French is raging in Malta, Spain burns all night, in Germany women cut the ties of men they meet, Austria blows up…
Brussels is stepping up control over European skies: the European Commission is preparing to propose that the Union's countries transfer to it the rights to conduct negotiations on the terms of…
American homes surprise in every sense—both positive and negative. But only after we built a house ourselves did it become clear that this is the only way to get a guaranteed quality dwelling. In…
Every year about 300 thousand people come to Great Britain to study English. As BBC notes, teaching English to foreigners is called Britain's 'largest invisible export', whose volume already exceeded…
While the Bush administration is conducting military preparations in the Persian Gulf, a war "to defeat by fear" has already begun in America itself.
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed amendments to the law on the legal status of foreigners, simplifying the mechanism for expelling foreigners and stateless persons detained within…
Our compatriots who in Moscow and other Russian cities are subjected to unjustified checks by police officers (and often illegal extortions) will find it useful to study this memo.
Feeling unwell during a holiday abroad will soon cease to be a problem for Europeans: from 1 June 2004, a single health insurance card will be introduced in the European Union - it will be usable in…
I want to tell about my first experience of traveling abroad. This story is quite fresh, and all the described events fit into the time period between Catholic Christmas and New Year.
Foreign workers in Israel have started receiving gas masks, according to the English-language website of the Israeli daily newspaper The Jerusalem Post. The distribution of gas masks began on…
In Germany, certain categories of refugees are no longer required to use plastic cards when shopping.
In the Belgian North Sea port of Zeebrugge, a new electronic system for detecting illegal immigrants in freight trucks and containers departing by ferry across the English Channel to Great Britain…
Cases against drunk drivers make up more than a third of the approximately 60,000 criminal cases heard annually by Finland's district courts, Rosbalt reports.
The French authorities have drafted a law that significantly toughens liability for traffic violations. French President Jacques Chirac said that the situation on the country's roads is 'one of the…
Representatives of British Airways have said they are reviewing their plans for the future of the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft, the Concorde. According to British Airways staff, this is…
The other day Belgium became another country where "full-fledged" marriages for gays and lesbians are allowed - including international ones. Thus, when same-sex marriages are concluded between…