Marrying a wealthy foreigner is for many of our female compatriots almost the same as hitting the jackpot in a serious lottery. With the only significant difference that if in the lottery machine…
Only from autumn 2004 will Swedes be able to travel to other Schengen zone countries without a passport, since a new form of identity card indicating citizenship will be introduced. This is reported…
Persons with Russian citizenship living in Turkmenistan will be able to obtain a residence permit. This was reported on Monday by the Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that in 2002, 89,700 people tried to obtain refugee status in the United States. Among former Soviet Union countries, Ukraine (its citizens…
AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines and Thai International Airways have signed a memorandum providing for a significant development of air service between Ukraine and Southeast Asia.
The traditional British pastime of fox hunting may be outlawed. Last week the lower house of the British Parliament, the House of Commons, voted to ban fox hunting with hounds. According to Vremya…
Kuusamo is a city in northeastern Finland, almost on the border with Karelia. It is located in Oulu Province, which Finns call the gateway to Lapland. The city is the largest in area in Finland, but…
A trial in the case of a Ukrainian gang involved in smuggling illegal migrants across the border has been ongoing in Cologne for several months. Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Ministry has not allowed…
Probably, ten years ago it was hard even to imagine how freely and confidently our compatriots would move across the vast expanses... no, not of our homeland, but of distant foreign lands…
The other day, a Gazeta.Ru correspondent returned home from the only place in the world where Russians with special passes go to an American military base for vodka. Even Foreign Ministry employees…
Do you know what Isadora Duncan, Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus and Maximilian Voloshin have in common? They all loved to unnecessarily bare their beautiful and not-so-beautiful bodies on the beach. This…
Immigration lawyers in Canada representing those who applied for immigration to Canada during the period of the old immigration law but became hostages to the amendments made to it (they began to be…