It is customary to envy prominent fellow emigrants to the point of impropriety. Those who went soft, failed to cope with nostalgia, and reversed course are pitied in hindsight, through the layers of…
For the vast majority of residents of our country (and, alas, sometimes the only one) one of the most reliable ways to get permanent residence in Western European countries, if by nationality they…
How 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…
Politicians have done what antiglobalists failed to do: the confrontation between the New and Old Worlds threatens to shake the foundations of the global economy. The war in Iraq is not limited to…
One of the most persistent myths dating back to Soviet times is the myth of the Western healthcare system, which is supposedly far better than ours and extremely effective. To this day, one can…
There is hardly a man who has not at least once made a snide remark about women who see marriage as the ultimate goal of any love affair. The role of mistress or live-in partner rarely suits them…
Once, in a crowded tram, I happened to be an inadvertent witness to a conversation between two middle-aged women. One of them was quietly complaining to her friend about the not-too-well-going family…
There is no disputing that many ladies and girls aspired to marry foreigners even during the Iron Curtain. And when it collapsed, the number of those aspiring grew even larger. Simply by itself, the…
Since Irish employers' offers began to spread with lightning speed across towns and villages of post-Soviet republics, hundreds of Ukrainians went to the Emerald Isle in search of their happiness…
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has allowed same-sex marriages to be registered. However, in the coming years this innovation is unlikely to spread across the whole of Great Britain.
In France, military conscription has been officially abolished. Young people of conscription age are exempt from previously mandatory service since last Wednesday. As Gazeta.Ru writes, henceforth…