Curiosities
Deputies of Kazakhstan demanded that the heads of the National Bank compensate the state for the funds spent on manufacturing tenge with a grammatical error. The typo was found in banknotes of 2,000…
Education
The British sometimes joke about foreigners eager to speak English like native speakers: Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? That is: «Пусть вы и…
Sport
The International Federation of Football (FIFA) named former France captain Zinedine Zidane in the list of candidates for the 2006 World Footballer of the Year. The famous French footballer, who…
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To enroll in a German university for a first higher education degree or internship, you need to certify your knowledge of the German language. This can be done in your home country or in Germany. The…
Airbus
The European Commission last week published an updated version of the blacklist of unsafe airlines that are banned from the airspace of all European Union member states. Of our nearest neighbors in…
Immigration
A Russian-speaking Israeli was suspected of forging documents confirming his nationality. According to Vremya Novostey, the Israeli Ministry of Interior refused to recognize a Ukrainian-born man…
For tourists from a number of CIS countries, the conditions for obtaining visas to Egypt have been tightened. As explained in the Consular Department of the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow, they will have…
Who among us has never been left without their suitcase after a flight at least once in their life? And, as statistics show, the number of passengers losing their personal belongings on flights is…
Insisting on tightening policies against illegal migrants and guest workers, Russia's Federal Migration Service (FMS) continues to paint rosy pictures for Russian-speaking compatriots who wish to…
News
News
The accession of Eastern European EU member states and Switzerland to the Schengen Area is postponed until June 2008. The European Commission explains the delay by technical reasons.
Sport
I have often heard that the world knows about Ukraine thanks to the names of its athletes: Andriy Shevchenko, Vitali and Volodymyr Klitschko, Yana Klochkova. They are known even in Central African…
Tourism
GERMANY Germany and beer are almost synonyms. But even in such a country there are real beer oases. For example, Bamberg, or the small town of Kulmbach. But the main 'oasis' is Bavaria. BELGIUM Let…