Uzbek Ravon fills the car market
Assembly of the updated Ravon sedan has started at the Uzbek plant. The first batch of Uzbek novelties has already been shipped to Russia. The new Ravon brand, owned by Uzbekistan, replaced the…
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To Czechia for work
The total number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic is approaching half a million. There are no official data for 2016 yet, so currently the record year is 2015 – 465 thousand foreigners. The…
Law zone
Refugees Practice Social Fraud
For several weeks now, a special investigative unit has been working in Lower Saxony, dealing exclusively with cases of illegal receipt of financial benefits by refugees who have arrived in this…
Everyday life
Keep your documents with you
Carrying a passport (Pass, Personalausweis) or another identity document is mandatory in Germany. Failure to have such a document on hand is punishable by a fine of up to 5,000 euros. What other…
Education
Where the Most Capable Study
University rankings are traditionally led by US and UK institutions. But do their graduates really know that much? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently published the…
Everyday life
You have to work part-time on a pension
From 1999 to mid-2016, the number of German residents over 65 with a full-time job almost quadrupled. According to the latest data from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), these figures rose from…
Everyday life
How Germany Eats
An overabundance of cookbooks with gorgeous photos, internet blogs overflowing with recipes, trendy street food and farmers' markets – all these phenomena of the time are apparently widely…
Everyday life
Professional Inclination to Infidelity
What drives some members of the fair sex to seek pleasure outside of marriage – new love, a thirst for adventure, or simply sexual need? Psychologists may be able to answer this question. But a…
Everyday life
In Wolfsburg They Pay More
There is a significant territorial difference in the incomes of German residents. This follows from the official response of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to a request from the…
Integration
Czech Republic Counts Foreigners
The Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) has released data on foreigners working in the country – their numbers, fields of employment, and average salaries. The report for the full calendar year (2015) was…
Work
Part-time job during holidays
Look left – Neuschwanstein Castle. Look right – crystal clear Alpine lakes. That's roughly how Iryna from Kharkiv describes her holidays. Three years ago, she spent the summer in a Bavarian town near…
Tourism
Ski Slopes with a German Flair
Winter sports enthusiasts from other countries often say that Germans can only be envied. They don't have to travel far to go skiing – their own ski resorts are enough. Although this season, snow in…