Foreign students, exchange visitors, and scholars visiting American educational institutions or conducting research in the United States will in most cases be required to pay a $100 fee when applying…
Immigration
A report commissioned by the French government concludes that many of the country's poorest areas, populated by Muslims of North African descent, have in effect become ghettos, BBC reports.
Curiosities
During summer vacations, the issue of free movement across countries and continents becomes extremely relevant. If in winter trips to the Hawaiian Islands and the associated unpleasant procedure of…
The weekly 'Zagranitsa' has repeatedly presented to its readers the Canadian programs of the International Institute of Business. Teachers talked about them, students and graduates shared their…
While Christmas frosts crackle at full blast, the cheerful Italian city of Sanremo traditionally begins to celebrate the arrival of spring. On January 7, the sun shines, plus 10 degrees... It is no…
Traveler Alexander Sobolev, who has lived in Austria in Vienna for a long time and has visited many cities and countries around the world, believes that a good half of humanity does not even suspect…
Immigration
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are about 5 million illegal migrants in Russia. The Federal Migration Service (FMS), which is undergoing its seventh reorganization in the last…
Immigration
Not only cheap Eastern European labor resources, but also the routine fight against the criminal underworld makes rich countries look with anxious concern at the opening borders, notes Novye Rubezhi…
Sport
This man's surname is well known around the world even to sports fans who are not connoisseurs of boxing. And even to those who are not sports fans at all. Kostya Tszyu is a truly legendary figure…
Immigration
In any city in the world, in any crowd, I recognize them by a certain inner oppression, uncertainty, by a dull look and an inability to smile. I have met them in the gloomy Paris metro and on busy…
News
On the eve of Poland's formal accession to the European Union (May 1, 2004), the Polish press presented a full spectrum of public opinion sentiments related to that fact. The spectrum was quite wide…
Country guide
Subjective notes of an inspired sinner in purgatory.