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France issues multi-year residence permits

In France, the first multi-year residence permits have been issued to foreigners under the new immigration law. The new documents, valid for 2 to 4 years, will be granted to students, foreign…

Going to work in Lithuania

The difficult situation in the country is forcing Ukrainians to increasingly look for work abroad. The influx of labor from Ukraine has become particularly noticeable, for example, in small…

Without quotas, but with a choice

The Council of States of Switzerland, the small chamber of parliament, traditionally has a reputation in the country as a balanced and prudent state body, whose decisions are dominated not by…

Christmas Beads of the Czech Republic

What to bring from pre-Christmas Prague? Maybe a handmade glass bead Christmas ornament? For many years it will be carefully stored, appearing from a box filled with tissue paper only during the New…

Easier to Give Birth Than to Raise a Child

Sooner or later, every working woman faces a fundamental question: children or career? The answer to this question is not as obvious as it might seem at first glance. Not all of us look at babies…

National Degree

AKUNA MATATA: KILIMANJARO (Part 1)

The editorial office of "Zagranitsa" has established a good tradition: every year one of our journalists makes an adventurous dash to Africa and climbs Kilimanjaro. A year ago, deputy editor-in-chief…

AKUNA MATATA: KILIMANJARO (Part 2)

The road to Kibo is long, harsh, but not difficult. Is Kilimanjaro giving us a head start before the most important and challenging stage? Or is it bluffing, lulling our vigilance, only to prove who…

Akuna matata: the Maasai

The road winds like a rusty snake, catching up with the numerous villages of aborigines lost among the horizons of the savannah. The Maasai are perhaps one of the most colorful tribes in East Africa…

Akuna matata: the road to Africa

One day at sunset of a working day, when the air temperature was relentlessly approaching body temperature and the fan was vainly shaking the long-dead air from thirst, cherishing the thought of an…

Akuna matata: in the capital of Kenya

Kenya shocked us with the grayness and poverty of its capital. Our hotel Sixhundredeighty (“680”) was located almost in the center, next to the Kenyan National Museum, which has long needed…

Akuna Matata: Maasai Mara Park

The next morning we raced in a veteran safari Land Cruiser to Maasai Mara Park – a state reserve located 390 kilometers from Nairobi. Baboons and red gazelles occasionally crossed the road; we lunged…