Starting January 5, 2004, holders of American visas upon entering the US will have to provide fingerprints and be photographed to confirm their identity. According to NEWSru, this measure will take…
Champagne, perhaps, has never been so magnificent in taste and affordable as it is now. It is hard to imagine that even at the beginning of the last century this cheerfully sparkling drink was a…
According to a tradition established in 1956, the well-known French weekly France Football conducts a poll among journalists from European countries, who name the five best, in their opinion…
People who can speak also often resort to sign language, used by the mute, when they want to express a particular feeling. The latter must be especially careful, since the same gesture is perceived…
The 1961 Convention, which abolishes the requirement to legalize foreign official documents, comes into force for Ukraine on December 22, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
More than 7,500 people are included in the blacklists of persons not entitled to enter Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, RIA Novosti reports. As noted by Heiki Kirotar, press secretary of the Estonian…
Currently, about 185,000 foreign students study in Germany. Of these, about seven thousand receive a scholarship from DAAD - the German Academic Exchange Service (this statistic does not include…
The German newspaper Bild has published the 12 most absurd laws about sex that exist in the world. However, the publication's journalists warn that, despite their absurdity, these laws are in effect.
After the reunification of the two Germanys, the federal government invested 80 billion euros annually in the development of the new states, trying to bring the living standards of eastern and…
Ukrainian citizen Igor Kosar has been living in Germany for almost six years with the status of a contingent refugee. The former Kyiv resident has integrated successfully, works as an electrical…
After the enlargement of the European Union, when in May 2004 the number of its member countries will increase to 25, travelers in Europe will still have to go through border control. The accession…
What matters most for a curious tourist? Legs matter, Russky Fokus believes, because if you want to see and learn as much as possible in a short time, you'll have to run around. But wheels matter…