Contenders for the new wonder of the world
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Articles by the author
Culture
Sport
Red wave in boxing
Professional boxing has entered an era of change: all current world heavyweight champions are from the former USSR. What consequences might this have for world boxing? Russian boxing fans had barely…
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News
€500 Banknote Could Be Outlawed
MEPs are concerned about the growing circulation of the largest banknote denomination, €500. MEPs suspect that these banknotes are mainly used for money laundering. But the main problem, experts say…
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Analysis
Annan's Decade
The UN Security Council approved a new Secretary-General of the United Nations – as expected, it was South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon. With his assumption of office on January 1, 2007, an…
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News
Main news of the issue (abroad No. 354)
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Airbus
Ringed Air Passengers
The ink had hardly dried on the ruling of the European Constitutional Court refusing to allow U.S. authorities to obtain detailed information on air passengers traveling from the EU to America, and…
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Analysis
The Great American Wall
U.S. President George Bush personally put an end to a long and rather tedious detective story called "The Mexican Wall." After he signed the corresponding bill, a thousand-kilometer fence will be…
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Tourism
Boredom, Jazz and Marijuana
November in Europe is much duller than October: there are fewer festivals and holidays, and somehow there is not as much fun as in the previous month. Nothing surprising about that, truth be told…
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Immigration
Repatriates Leave Israel
At a meeting of the parliamentary committee on aliyah and absorption, data were presented on the number of repatriates leaving Israel. According to the published report, among new repatriates, those…
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Airbus
Heathrow named worst airport in the world
According to a survey of 4,000 air passengers conducted on the travel website TripAdvisor, London's Heathrow was named the worst of all airports, and Irish airline Ryanair the worst airline. The…
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Tourism
Boston. Autumn Waltz
One of the oldest cities in America, the capital of Massachusetts, a major Atlantic port. Like no other American city, Boston is rich in monuments of the colonial period and, in fact, is the…
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Curiosities
See Paris and Go Crazy
Japanese go crazy over Paris. And in the literal sense of the word. So many people are affected by the realities of the French capital that they have grown from a medical problem into a scientific…
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