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Several ways to ruin a vacation

Who Drifts on an Ice Floe

Drifting polar stations are as much Russian know-how as matryoshka or tea with a bite of sugar. This cheap and effective way of exploring the Arctic was invented in 1929 by Vladimir Vize, a…

What Do Children Cost These Days?

What happiness when a baby appears in the house! And how joyful it is for a young mother to realize that she can count on state help in this difficult task — "raising" a new citizen. But is this so?…

Say a Word for the Poor Refugee

The practice of German justice in considering asylum applications is of some interest, since the countries of the former Soviet Union occupy the unenviable first places in the German list of refugee…

Prison Life of an Illegal

In December we told the story of Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Shelukhin, sentenced by the Zelenograd court of the Russian capital to deportation and separation from his young Muscovite wife (see…

America Doesn't Fit Into Its Pants

America may revise the national size scale for ready-made clothing, reports Vremya Novostey. Many years ago, when the tsunami of acceleration and fast food had not yet hit the United States, the…

To travel «without fear and reproach»

Going on a foreign trip, many of our tourists are confident that nothing will happen to them there. They still treat insurance as an unnecessary formality imposed by tour companies, and at the…

Badminton - a game named after a British town

The essence of the game of badminton is quite simple. The players' task is to use a racket to send the shuttlecock (a feathered ball) over the net to the opponent's half of the court. And, naturally…

Muses of Distant Wanderings

One can talk for days about the amazing ability of a person to notice something good in a neighbor. Such is our nature that one’s own, personal things, to which one has grown accustomed, seem like…

Canadian diploma in a Ukrainian university

Whether a domestic manager needs to learn new technologies of international business is no longer debated - time flies, and Ukraine is steadily moving towards the introduction of modern management…

Czech courts flooded with refugee complaints

Urgently Needed: One Million Jews