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Operation Frantic: Heroic Echo of War

Operation Frantic: Heroic Echo of War

A Double-Decker Legend

A two-decked brig on rubber wheels, the Routemaster bus, is considered as much a calling card of London as red telephone boxes and Big Ben. By the end of the year, just short of its 50th anniversary…

Harlem, Paris-style

For the second week now, the suburbs of Paris resemble Harlem of the 1960s. Overturned cars, smoldering fires made of car tires, broken shop windows. From dawn to dusk, only small groups of rioting…

Bulgaria: Getting Closer to the West

When a Bulgarian nods affirmatively, it means “no,” and conversely, when he seems to shake his head negatively, it means “yes.” This trait, which distinguishes Bulgarians from all other peoples of…

Moving Forward

We asked Lisa Giannangeli, deputy director of admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB), the questions that most often concern future MBAs. Many of her recommendations are…

Guest workers hold inflation

Temporary workers from CIS countries help Russia contain inflation. Year after year, they take more and more money abroad - both officially (through bank transfers) and unofficially - through…

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 305)

See Paris and... be scared

The gang riot in the outskirts of Paris is becoming problem number one for French politics. The police has so far been unable to stop the wave of street violence. As a result, the actions of street…

Specializations of Canadian Business Schools

Unlike the positions of MBA schools in various rankings, their curricula at first glance seem roughly similar. At the same time, it is knowledge of the nuances of the educational activities of a…

Europeans Know Only Half of Road Rules

How to keep children safe while driving? At what distance should a warning triangle be placed? Drivers from 12 European countries tried to correctly answer these and other questions.

We Distill It Ourselves, We Drink It Ourselves

It is amazing what associative chains the word “samogonka” drags behind it. On the one hand, it is a murky slop that sleepy Granny Masha sells to the men at night for a tenner. On the other, it is…

Main news of the issue (Abroad No. 304)