Having flown to Portugal once again, I always first rush to the ocean to say hello. How different its 'voice' at Cabo da Roca is from all others! It replies exactly, roaring that it is glad too… The…
At the end of last year, as a 4th-year language student, I desperately wanted to go work abroad. Our dreary reality was getting tiresome; I craved new experiences, to develop my talents and make the…
I think that a second-class railway carriage with three-berth compartments is absent from Prague's 'Museum of Medieval Torture' solely due to chronological inconsistency. Of course, the carriage is…
"Russian American Dream" is not quite the same as the "American Dream" in the original. As a rule, initially Russians' desires focus on satisfying material wants – a car, a house, credit cards.
Dmitry Kokhmanyuk graduated from the Cybernetics Department of Kyiv University and left for the USA in 1996. For the third year he has been working as a network system administrator at a software…
Psychologists have long noted that a person entering a foreign cultural environment initially experiences complete euphoria, which soon gives way to an emotional downturn. They have named this…
Builder from Kherson region Viktor KLYNKO worked in the Czech Republic – a country that, as is well known, has been hosting a huge number of "temporary labor emigrants" from Ukraine for years…
Immigration to Italy: a firsthand account. Usually, when reporting in a newspaper about how to immigrate to one country or another — about entry rules, the procedure for obtaining a residence permit…
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…
To begin with, I will say that before coming to Germany as a contingent refugee, I had an idea of the German police only from Soviet war films and from the rollicking, well-known hit song “Eins-zwei…
Among those coming to the temporary camp for German resettlers 'Unna-Massen', there is for some reason a belief that all offices must be visited in one day, which results in long queues and crowding…
South Africa is so far away that we can only believe the tall tales coming from there. In reality, South Africa is somewhat similar to our country. In what way exactly? This is what “our man” in Cape…