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News

Massive baggage loss at US airports

The mandatory screening of all airline passengers' baggage at US airports, introduced by the authorities in January of this year, has led to the widespread disappearance of items from suitcases and…

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News

The Odessa trace in Spanish football

Abramovich is not the first person from the former USSR to invest in a foreign football club (and far from the first businessman to want to acquire a team from another country). Let us recall that at…

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Sport

Roman (Abramovich) with Chelsea

Last week the football world was rocked by news from the British Isles. And not just the football world - everyone is shocked by what the well-known Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, currently…

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Education

A good education is the main inheritance that parents can give their children

Quite recently, the last school bell rang for eleventh-grade graduates. Now a very serious and responsible moment has come in their lives, when they need to make up their minds and make the most…

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Immigration

Struggle at the crossing. Canadian court vs. the immigration ministry

Immigration lawyers in Canada representing those who applied for immigration to Canada during the period of the old immigration law but became hostages to the amendments made to it (they began to be…

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Tourism

Nudists relax just like ordinary tourists. A tour of the world's most naked places

Do you know what Isadora Duncan, Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus and Maximilian Voloshin have in common? They all loved to unnecessarily bare their beautiful and not-so-beautiful bodies on the beach. This…

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Country guide

Land of the Unfrightened Taliban

The other day, a Gazeta.Ru correspondent returned home from the only place in the world where Russians with special passes go to an American military base for vodka. Even Foreign Ministry employees…

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Personal experience

My Ireland - a Country of Study and Work

Probably, ten years ago it was hard even to imagine how freely and confidently our compatriots would move across the vast expanses... no, not of our homeland, but of distant foreign lands…

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News

Trial continues in case of Ukrainian gang. German Foreign Ministry fears for the lives of its employees

A trial in the case of a Ukrainian gang involved in smuggling illegal migrants across the border has been ongoing in Cologne for several months. Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Ministry has not allowed…

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Tourism

What are salmon and how to catch them. Finns willingly share their fish riches

Kuusamo is a city in northeastern Finland, almost on the border with Karelia. It is located in Oulu Province, which Finns call the gateway to Lapland. The city is the largest in area in Finland, but…

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News

Britons may be deprived of a national pastime. Parliamentarians spent over five hours arguing about the fate of red foxes

The traditional British pastime of fox hunting may be outlawed. Last week the lower house of the British Parliament, the House of Commons, voted to ban fox hunting with hounds. According to Vremya…

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News

From Ukraine It Will Be Possible to Reach 15 Asian Countries

AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines and Thai International Airways have signed a memorandum providing for a significant development of air service between Ukraine and Southeast Asia.

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News

Ukrainians lead in number of refugee applications in the United States

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that in 2002, 89,700 people tried to obtain refugee status in the United States. Among former Soviet Union countries, Ukraine (its citizens…

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