In winter, Lapland is even quieter than in summer. As "Voyage and Rest" notes, the main inhabitant of the white silence is the reindeer, from which there is no more noise than from falling snow. Much…
Nearly a month has passed since the natural disaster in Southeast Asia. The affected countries are licking their wounds, and television reports increasingly show not destruction but the restoration…
My first impression of Kenya came to me on the London-Nairobi flight, which I rushed onto at the last minute, having run across the vast expanses of Heathrow Airport. Unlike the half-empty Boeing…
Shortly after Christmas, electronic media reported the possible appointment of famous Ukrainian footballer Oleh Luzhny – captain of Dynamo Kyiv and the country's national team in the 1990s – as head…
Catastrophe in Southeast Asia, public protests against social reforms, traditional New Year price increases – amid the noise of unhappy events, a new immigration law came into force in Germany on…
In the new year, smokers in Europe have found it much harder to indulge in their favorite, albeit harmful, habit: aggressive visual campaigning has been added to the increased prices for tobacco…
There are many paths leading to success. Among them are straight as an arrow and more winding ones. If your goal is to obtain an Australian-style diploma, you can choose one of the typical "routes"…
Just a few days after the disaster in Southeast Asian countries, tourists are already sunbathing on the beaches. As Deutsche Welle notes, tabloid newspapers publish such pictures. Drinking beer and…
German poet and publicist Heinrich Heine once wrote: “When the end of the world comes, I will go to Holland, because everything happens there 50 years later.” It seems, as IA Rosbalt notes, Heine was…
America is in the grip of a litigation orgy. According to Vremya Novostei, even former American spies are joining the long queue of plaintiffs to sue the CIA for unfulfilled promises.
The past weekend was the last in Italy when you could calmly enjoy a cigarette anywhere.
Every year, over 160,000 students from all over the world come to the Green Continent to continue their education. What attracts them here?