Citizens of Ukraine do not necessarily need a transit visa to cross Poland when traveling to a country in the Schengen area. However, they must have a Schengen visa, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
In its capacity as President of the European Union, Italy proposed to its partners a new approach to streamlining immigration policy - introducing quotas by country. As the magazine Europa reports…
Education in Germany, according to the Constitution, is a civil right. Every child is required to attend a general education school for at least nine years, and then at least three more years in a…
A two-day meeting of the board of trustees of the German foundation “Memory, Responsibility and Future,” which is in charge of paying financial compensation to former forced laborers of National…
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft law "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation." With the law entering into…
The penitentiary system of Switzerland, like that of other countries, in principle, solves a single task: the correction of people who have broken the law. However, as IA Rosbalt notes, these systems…
At the beginning of September, the faction of the Free Democratic Party of Germany in the Bundestag adopted a policy document proposing a moratorium until the end of 2007 on the further admission of…
Filled with the desire to visit friends in Spain for a couple of weeks, hugging a language self-study book, I briskly set off to the then still distant Spanish embassy in Kiev. Knowledgeable people…
Ukrainian sport as a whole is a heterogeneous phenomenon. It has both strengths and weaknesses. But fortunately, there are more of the former. Ukraine's most valuable asset is its athletes, whose…
Finally, I managed to go to America through the Open World program, founded five years ago by the director of the US Library of Congress, a specialist in Russian culture and history, James…
The small-population State of Israel abounds with various religions. It is simply impossible not to encounter the life of the religious population of this country: Arab quarters, residential areas…
Russian Toronto considers the concessions of Canada's immigration authorities a populist step on the eve of the upcoming federal elections. On September 18, what was to be expected happened -…
As we reported in the previous issue of "Zagranitsa", the Russian president has prepared a draft of softening amendments to the law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation". Last week this document…
On September 18, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Denis Coderre, called a press conference to announce significant changes to the country's immigration system. Canada has come to its…
People go to the market not only to buy potatoes or to look over Turkish consumer goods. Among the market rows and wooden stalls, where people argue till they're hoarse and crack salty jokes, where…
“Poland attempted to hold a discussion with the EU on whether visas should be introduced at all longer than any other candidate country,” Warsaw officials say. The EU’s demands will now be met…