Recently, the European Commission presented a draft single European visa information system (VIS), which took more than six months to develop. According to the EU commissioners' plan, the VIS will…
The Ministry of Health of Thailand has published recommendations for foreign travelers planning trips to the southern regions of Thailand affected by the tsunami of December 26, 2004. As Vremya…
Cuba is ready to give up producing the famous Cuban cigars if humanity is ready to give up smoking. The Cuban Vice Prime Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez, who arrived in Lebanon on an official visit…
There is a common opinion that the USA is the richest country in the world with wide opportunities. Nevertheless, the world's only superpower has a serious problem: homeless people. As BBC reports…
What instinct warns animals of danger? It seems that scientists who observed the behavior of elephants, leopards and rabbits, which left the disaster zone in South Asia in time, are close to solving…
Every year, a ranking of the best schools is published in Britain. And every parent glances at this list to find a decent establishment nearby for their child and, weighing their financial…
Now there is very tough competition in the tourism market. Therefore, as Gazeta.Ru notes, winning offers for vacationers that will help the country emerge victorious in this struggle need to be…
The Russian State Duma passed in the first reading amendments to legislation clarifying the procedure and conditions for the stay of foreign citizens in Russia.
A person constantly thinks about where to go next. The need to choose – whether to continue studying or go to work – reappears at every new stage of life. As Kariera notes, sooner or later everyone…
Every year, over 160,000 students from all over the world come to the Green Continent to continue their education. What attracts them here?
The past weekend was the last in Italy when you could calmly enjoy a cigarette anywhere.
America is in the grip of a litigation orgy. According to Vremya Novostei, even former American spies are joining the long queue of plaintiffs to sue the CIA for unfulfilled promises.
German poet and publicist Heinrich Heine once wrote: “When the end of the world comes, I will go to Holland, because everything happens there 50 years later.” It seems, as IA Rosbalt notes, Heine was…
Just a few days after the disaster in Southeast Asian countries, tourists are already sunbathing on the beaches. As Deutsche Welle notes, tabloid newspapers publish such pictures. Drinking beer and…
There are many paths leading to success. Among them are straight as an arrow and more winding ones. If your goal is to obtain an Australian-style diploma, you can choose one of the typical "routes"…
In the new year, smokers in Europe have found it much harder to indulge in their favorite, albeit harmful, habit: aggressive visual campaigning has been added to the increased prices for tobacco…
Catastrophe in Southeast Asia, public protests against social reforms, traditional New Year price increases – amid the noise of unhappy events, a new immigration law came into force in Germany on…
Shortly after Christmas, electronic media reported the possible appointment of famous Ukrainian footballer Oleh Luzhny – captain of Dynamo Kyiv and the country's national team in the 1990s – as head…
My first impression of Kenya came to me on the London-Nairobi flight, which I rushed onto at the last minute, having run across the vast expanses of Heathrow Airport. Unlike the half-empty Boeing…
Nearly a month has passed since the natural disaster in Southeast Asia. The affected countries are licking their wounds, and television reports increasingly show not destruction but the restoration…
In winter, Lapland is even quieter than in summer. As "Voyage and Rest" notes, the main inhabitant of the white silence is the reindeer, from which there is no more noise than from falling snow. Much…
We are sitting in a noisy café of the Kyiv shopping center “Globus”. Green tea is getting cold in the cups. Sveta smiles, looking at the bustling crowd scurrying around us. And I secretly examine…
Shortly after the New Year, the radio station “Echo of Moscow” asked its listeners whether they were ready to go on holiday to Southeast Asian countries. According to the voting results on air, after…