Ukrainian sport as a whole is a heterogeneous phenomenon. It has both strengths and weaknesses. But fortunately, there are more of the former. Ukraine's most valuable asset is its athletes, whose…
Filled with the desire to visit friends in Spain for a couple of weeks, hugging a language self-study book, I briskly set off to the then still distant Spanish embassy in Kiev. Knowledgeable people…
At the beginning of September, the faction of the Free Democratic Party of Germany in the Bundestag adopted a policy document proposing a moratorium until the end of 2007 on the further admission of…
The penitentiary system of Switzerland, like that of other countries, in principle, solves a single task: the correction of people who have broken the law. However, as IA Rosbalt notes, these systems…
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft law "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation." With the law entering into…
A two-day meeting of the board of trustees of the German foundation “Memory, Responsibility and Future,” which is in charge of paying financial compensation to former forced laborers of National…
Education in Germany, according to the Constitution, is a civil right. Every child is required to attend a general education school for at least nine years, and then at least three more years in a…
In its capacity as President of the European Union, Italy proposed to its partners a new approach to streamlining immigration policy - introducing quotas by country. As the magazine Europa reports…
Citizens of Ukraine do not necessarily need a transit visa to cross Poland when traveling to a country in the Schengen area. However, they must have a Schengen visa, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
On October 1, 2003, a visa regime between Poland and Ukraine comes into force, which establishes a visa-free procedure for travel of Polish citizens to Ukraine and a visa procedure for travel of…
Small and medium-sized hotels from New York to California have imposed smoking bans and are now cleaning, deodorizing and converting rooms formerly reserved for smokers. According to media reports…