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Visas

New service to combat illegal migration in the EU

The European Union intends to step up the fight against illegal immigration by creating a service designed to help control its external borders, which will soon reach Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The…

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Visas

England is already testing on volunteers

The UK plans to introduce a new system of national identity cards, which will include biometric iris scans and fingerprints. In the near future, such data will be collected on 10,000 volunteers. The…

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Education

MBA in Canada: In the Shadow of the Stars and Stripes

We have not yet sampled Canadian business schools. Just as we have not yet sampled calvados, Pernod, and other fine, generally speaking, drinks that simply do not fit into traditional perceptions…

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News

Citizens increasingly turn to European Court

The European Court of Human Rights currently has about 8,000 applications against Ukraine, and the Court's statistics show a steady increase in the number of such applications. This was reported by…

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News

Visa Regime Has Finally Gotten to Americans Themselves

The new procedure for issuing American visas, which has led to a significant reduction in the number of people entering the United States, is causing active protests from employees of universities…

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News

Ukrainians in Latvia Slow to Naturalize

Less than a fifth (16%) of ethnic Ukrainians living in Latvia have received citizenship of that country. As Interfax-Ukraine reports, this was stated by the Ambassador of Latvia to Ukraine Andris…

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Immigration

Lottery with Many Unknowns

Every year, September 30 turns out to be a grim day for those who, having received notification of their victory in the American Green Card visa lottery (official name - "Diversity Visa Program")…

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Sport

Russia advances. And retreats.

As soon as the next NHL regular season started, everyone immediately began to take an interested and close look at the 20-year-old native of Tver, Ilya Kovalchuk - a very promising hockey player from…

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Culture

Poster of the Month: Where to Go in December

December is the month when all of Europe celebrates the main Catholic holiday, Christmas. According to Gazeta.Ru, fairs, bazaars, concerts and carnivals dedicated to Christmas will only occasionally…

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Everyday life

True Italian in the Steppes of Ukraine

Much has already been written about Ukrainian women marrying foreigners of various kinds and tribes! And, of course, there are many adherents of this type of personal life arrangement, as well as…

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Everyday life

Don't confuse immigration with tourism

44 010606. Almost every one of the three million former CIS citizens living in Germany today knows these eight digits, Izvestia writes. This is a helpline for Russian speakers. It rarely stays silent…

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Education

Better to learn from others' mistakes

Many know about the existence of the Au Pair program, its conditions and requirements for participants. We will tell in more detail about staying directly in the family, about the duties and rights…

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Tourism

Two worlds - two tourists

“I’m going to Africa,” our tourist says and heads to Egypt. “Ich reise nach Afrika,” says a German and goes on safari in South Africa. For us, a vacation on islands usually means a trip to Cyprus…

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Sport

One Man in the Field Is Not a Warrior?

The reputation of domestic basketball is upheld by two Lithuanians and a Russian. Hardly anyone expected that the delegation of domestic basketball school representatives, noticeably expanded this…

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News

Finns Get Drunk on EU

Starting next year, new conditions for the sale and import of alcohol will come into effect in Finland. As the magazine Novye Rubezhi notes, Finns will face huge problems with alcohol.

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Visas

All entrants will be scanned

That is how a well-known poem will sound in about ten years. The United States and the European Union plan to equip border crossing points by 2006 with devices that will read fingerprints and key…

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News

Presumption of guilt of the air carrier

Passengers affected by an air crash and their relatives will be able to receive a much larger amount of compensation. According to a report from the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation…

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