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Real estate

Dormitory Rental: An Alternative to Expensive Rental Housing

Affordable housing in Russia has always been a very difficult, one might say, practically nationwide problem. This issue has become particularly acute in the present time, when hundreds of thousands…

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Everyday life

French people save on holidays

Every year during the spring Easter holidays, Paris fills with tourists from Europe. On public transport, café terraces, and near the Eiffel Tower, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese are heard more…

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Airbus

Condor: 60 years – normal flight!

Condor, the most popular German airline in the 'Leisure' segment, is celebrating its anniversary this year. 60 years ago, on March 29, 1956, the airline's aircraft made its first passenger flight…

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Tourism

Journey to the kingdom of cold and crystalline whiteness

From the school geography course, many remember the difficulties that the discoverers and explorers of Antarctica had to face. Could any of those who plowed the seas around the sixth continent in the…

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Travel

Want to save on travel? Organize it yourself!

Many travel agencies offer us ways to spend our vacation most profitably and interestingly. But this offer also has many downsides. Many people find all the programs provided by such agencies boring…

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Analysis

Swiss pragmatism

Two years after the referendum of February 9, 2014, in which the people of Switzerland decided to limit labor immigration from EU countries, legislators continue to grapple with finding a format that…

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Country guide

Arab Emirates: A Journey Through Time

The desert – probably the only word that could describe the Arab Emirates forty years ago. At that time, the country consisted of seven separate emirate states, each ruled by its own sheikh. It was…

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Auto tour

Ukrbustour: affordable vacation in the most beautiful places of the continent

Bus tours have captured the tourist transportation market with their affordability, flexible route choices, and relative comfort. Such tours are great for individual vacations, but more often they…

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Immigration

The Politics of Half-Closed Doors

At the end of April, Norwegian parliamentarians will consider amendments aimed at tightening migration legislation. After the number of asylum seekers in the kingdom exceeded 31,000 in 2015, six of…

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News

Road Toll Dispute

German authorities have long been preparing to collect a toll from foreigners for using German autobahns. Today, the controversial project, which implies compensation for local drivers at the expense…

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Everyday life

How France fought against this

70 years ago, the authorities put an end to one of the symbols of French life: brothels were banned in the country. The revolution took place thanks to the adoption of the 'Marthe Richard Law,' named…

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Law zone

Criminals deserve decent prisons

Germany will not be able to deport foreign criminals to other EU countries with poor prison conditions. Such a ruling was issued by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (EuGH, the highest…

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