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Moving to Germany: How to Overcome the Language Barrier?

Germany is one of the most culturally and economically developed countries in Europe, where many dream of living. Moving to a new place of residence requires emigrants to have at least basic…

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Pozner on Migration: Key Word – Experience

Vladimir Pozner is a person with such experience that allows him to speak most accurately and soundly about migration and its main problems. Known as a master of journalism not only in Russia but…

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«For the Swedes, we are all savages…»

According to various sources, there are 100-150 thousand Russian-speaking immigrants living in Sweden, most of them in Stockholm. The majority arrived with the last two waves of immigration – in the…

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UK will become Islamic

Experts from the UK National Statistical Service have given the country a grim diagnosis: the Islamization of British society is gaining unprecedented pace, threatening to turn the kingdom into a…

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How to Become a True Burgher

At some point, every immigrant in Germany faces the question of naturalization. Some categorically reject the very idea, because becoming a German would force them to apply for visas to their once…

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German Chancellor Explains What Successful Integration Is

Chancellor Angela Merkel recently discussed the problems of foreigners living in Germany in a new online video conference format. Before that, she had experimented several times with various forms of…

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Getting the 'Compatriot' Label Is Not Easy

120 thousand people – that’s approximately how many have moved to Russia since 2006 during the time the State Program for Assisting the Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots Living Abroad to the…

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Suffrage of Germans Abroad

There is a whole stratum of the population consisting of German citizens and their family members – late resettlers who returned to the CIS countries. Some have German passports and, accordingly…

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Multilingualism as a Norm

Why do Europeans strive to learn several European languages? Despite the global dominance of English, it is hard to imagine ordinary citizens of other states universally learning and communicating in…

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Portrait of a British Subject

A seemingly trivial test – to sketch a portrait of a typical 'British subject'. Your imagination paints a respectable gentleman in a tweed three-piece suit with a cane, scarf, and pipe? We are…

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Prime Minister Turned Right

The problem of migrant integration, which rocked Germany several months ago, unexpectedly came to the forefront in the United Kingdom. Following the German president, British Prime Minister David…

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The End of Multiculturalism

"The multicultural approach has failed. Utterly failed." That was the bitter admission made by Angela Merkel at the congress of the Youth Union, and Germany had been heading toward it for fifty…

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