American pilots on domestic flights are now allowed to go on duty armed. This measure, as BBC reminds, was proposed after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and should help prevent attempts by…
Last year, 8,480 people applied for asylum in the Czech Republic. This is half as many as in 2001 (when 18,094 such applications were filed).
Russia's oldest airline intends to keep the hammer and sickle on its emblem, despite the fact that earlier the management planned to abandon communist symbols in order to refresh the company's image.
The blooming of pink magnolias in mountainous Switzerland, abounding in resorts, is nothing other than a sign of the end of the winter resort season. Just a couple of weeks ago, one could go down…
The Basque terrorist group ETA is planning to carry out a series of terrorist attacks next summer in resort areas of Spain in order to frighten foreigners and thereby harm tourism as the leading…
In May, Europe welcomes the arrival of summer: Holland makes sand sculptures, Italy dries oars, Spain stages a horse extravaganza, and France watches films and remembers Fellini. Gazeta.Ru presents…
Israel's Minister of Interior Avraham Poraz is pursuing a new policy regarding the determination of the status of foreign citizens who express a desire to live in Israel.
Cinema and the Germans, the Americans, and so on. In Soviet times we experienced an information famine: we pounced on Hollywood blockbusters as if they were exotic fruit; envied the foreign viewer…
German statistics know a lot, but not everything. In particular, it does not divide German citizens into people of German and non-German origin. In the passport (or more precisely, in the identity…
Salvoes of artillery that have shaken besieged Baghdad over the past month echoed loudly not only in world oil market quotations, but also in tourist flows. Just recently, the French Foreign Ministry…
One of the Israeli travel companies intends to provide its citizens with an opportunity to visit Iraq that seemed incredible until recently. According to the newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, a well-known…
The West African region, despite its lingering political instability, continues to attract crowds of people. In this crowd there are both businessmen and ordinary tourists. All sorts of threats to…