During the crisis, Russians saved the Cyprus real estate market. While Europeans were selling homes on the island, Russians were buying them. The most demand was for expensive real estate: prices for…
Culture
The upcoming February will be rich in art exhibitions: 'Lucas Cranach and His Time' in Paris, early periods of Picasso in Amsterdam, 'Chaos and Classicism' in Bilbao, 'Watercolor' and a large…
Work
Ukraine for the first time made it to the list of countries whose citizens the Italian authorities have granted work quotas. This year, Italy allocated 1,800 work permits for Ukrainian labor…
In late January, Norway arrested Madina Salamova, a writer known in the Scandinavian country who published under the pseudonym Marie Amelie a book about the life of an illegal immigrant in the…
Personal experience
Often, ignorance of foreign languages and misunderstanding of local customs lead to misunderstandings, the most unpleasant of which are financial. A similar story happened to me in East Africa, from…
Personal experience
We solved the problem of lack of money with outside help, but we clearly knew that if the plan failed, we needed to contact the embassy, whose functions include, among other things, providing…
Travel
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…
Travel
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…
Travel
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…
Travel
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…
Travel
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…
Travel
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…