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News

New Year's Eve will be one second longer

The upcoming New Year's Eve will be one second longer than usual. This was reported by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. "An extra second will be added to the atomic clocks at…

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Immigration

Russians tear apart the law

The Russian State Duma last week passed in the first reading amendments to the citizenship law submitted by the president. The aim of the legislative changes is to extend until January 1, 2008, the…

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Canada spends millions Immigration

Canada spends millions

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has shown unusual activity, announcing ongoing and planned measures to further improve the immigration situation. In particular, certain steps have been taken to…

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News

‘Refugee’ - the main word of 2005

‘Refugee’ has been recognized as the main word of 2005. The phrase of the year is ‘out of the mainstream,’ and the word used everywhere is ‘OK.’ These are the results of a study conducted by the…

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Everyday life

State-run drug injection rooms to appear in Europe

In Belgium, drug addicts will be given free doses of heroin. A reception point for drug addicts, after seven years of debates, will nevertheless open in the city of Liege. Belgium has already become…

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Immigration

Refugees will have to wait

The problem of refugees and asylum seekers who have lived for many years in the Federal Republic with the precarious residence status Duldung was the focus of the latest conference of German state…

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Tourism

New Year's Round-the-World Trip (Part 5)

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Tourism

New Year's Round-the-World Trip (Part 3)

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Tourism

New Year's Around-the-World Trip (Part 4)

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Hotel anthroponymics Tourism

Hotel anthroponymics

Very often the name of a hotel itself contains its key indicators and, say, after reading the name Long Beach Garden Hotel & SPA, you can already imagine its leisure concept. The main thing is not to…

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Tourism

New Year's Around-the-World Journey

Today we invite you to take a journey through time, to celebrate the New Year 24 times, in all time zones – in order to figure out who actually celebrates this holiday first and who last, and to…

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Latvia Has Gained an Unsavory Image Everyday life

Latvia Has Gained an Unsavory Image

Latvia has recently become a real mecca for sex tourism. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by the London office of the Latvian travel agency. The conclusions are as follows…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 311) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 311)

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Tourism

New Year's Around-the-World Trip (Part 2)

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