Five years after the landmark ruling on the class action lawsuit by Holocaust victims claiming rights to lost or stolen Nazi-era accounts in Swiss banks, a court-appointed monitor says many survivors…
Lately, thanks to the efforts of some mass media, news has spread that German higher education may soon become fee-based, writes 'Inostranets'. Last week, the editorial office even received several…
Employees of the Luhansk regional administration of the Security Service of Ukraine uncovered an organized criminal group that was involved in the illegal sending of Ukrainians to Israel. As reported…
We continue our series of publications for those applying to foreign universities. So, if you already know what documents are required, it's time to figure out how and when to send them. First of…
Thai cuisine is unlike any other, even the cuisine of its neighbors - Vietnamese, Malay, Khmer, Cantonese and Sichuan. Moreover, not a single Thai dish has been borrowed by other peoples, and not a…
At a press conference held last week, Lufthansa announced its results for nine months of the current year, presented the winter schedule and announced a new business class concept on long-haul routes.
In 'Zagranitsa' No. 43 (October 2003), the US State Department's instructions for participants of the American Green Card visa lottery (DV-2005) and answers to the most common questions were…
The editors asked me to comment from a lawyer's perspective on two cases of expulsion from Germany that attracted public attention, involving former citizens of the USSR who lived in Germany for many…
Viktor Skripnik, a native of Novomoskovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, ended up in Bremen back in 1996, through the patronage of Bernd Stange, a German who coached Dnipropetrovsk's 'Dnipro'…
Due to the increasing difficulty of obtaining visas to Schengen countries, most of the surplus labor force has rushed to the near abroad - Russia. And this is natural: this country is close, we have…
Preparing for a trip to Hamburg, I read a lot of interesting things on the Internet about this city, its history and attractions. To my surprise, I discovered that this northern city is the second…
The "Academic Year" program, or in other words - school exchanges, has existed for more than half a century. And, as it is easy to guess, the palm of primacy belongs to America. This country was the…