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Real estate

Vancouver Is the Most Comfortable City to Live In

Canada's Vancouver has been named the best place to live by the British business publication Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). EIU experts analyzed the quality of life in 127 cities around the…

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News

Biometric Passports to Be Introduced Next Year

In 2006, Russian citizens will begin receiving foreign passports with a non-volatile memory chip storing biometric data. This will make it highly probable to exclude passport forgery and its illegal…

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Immigration

From non-citizens of Latvia to non-citizens of the EU

Thanks to another Brussels directive, at the beginning of next year Latvia's non-citizens will have the opportunity to acquire the status of permanent resident of the EU. As the Latvian publication…

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Real estate

European Real Estate Is Getting More Expensive

According to an analytical study by the French real estate network Era Immobilier, the most expensive housing among European Union countries is in Luxembourg. As Gazeta.Ru reports, the average…

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Real estate

Poles demand compensation for property

Poland will have to pay compensation to its citizens whose families lost property during the revision of the country's eastern border after World War II. This decision was made by the European Court…

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Latvia: Jubilee Naturalization Immigration

Latvia: Jubilee Naturalization

The beginning of autumn brought Latvia a historic event. The hundred-thousandth naturalized resident of the country became the holder of the coveted blue passport and the status of “citizen” with all…

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Real estate

The German capital has reunited

It seems that the merging of the German capital has finally happened. In any case, a significant event was noted this year: housing prices in the western part of Berlin and the eastern part have…

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Visas

American 'visa story'

The 'cornerstone' of an American trip for most of our compatriots becomes the visa question: what should be done before applying for a visa, what is not recommended, what difficulties may await, and…

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Work

How to build a career as an IT specialist

Today, the information technology sector is one of the most attractive for those wishing to build a career. As Gzt.Ru notes, a qualified IT specialist today does not look for a job, but chooses…

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City of a Hundred Spires Tourism

City of a Hundred Spires

Perhaps, this is the only city in the world that needs no introduction, notes 'Voyage and Rest'. Countless red tiled roofs, domes shimmering with gold in the rays of the sunset, towers reaching into…

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Donetsk Romanian Mircea Sport

Donetsk Romanian Mircea

For several seasons now, the Donetsk football club Shakhtar has been banking on foreign coaches. In 2002, Italian Nevio Scala arrived in the capital of Donbas, who secured the team's first ever…

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Here they drink and laugh like crazy Tourism

Here they drink and laugh like crazy

Venedikt Erofeev rightly noted that “on one side of the border they speak Russian and drink more, while on the other they drink less and speak a non-Russian language.” However, sometimes this…

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Where the Motherland Begins Immigration

Where the Motherland Begins

Serious changes are coming in Russian migration legislation. Recently a meeting of the working group of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) took place, at which amendments to the law "On the Legal…

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News

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