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Everyday life
Experience of Western countries shows that the jury system, which is mercilessly criticized and which primarily irritates the citizens themselves who sit in courtrooms all day, nevertheless works…
Curiosities
The charging bull, a symbol of the New York Stock Exchange and of New York itself, has become the subject of a lawsuit. The creator and owner of the statue, Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica, accused…
Immigration
By a majority of more than two-thirds of the vote, Swiss voters on Sunday approved in a referendum amendments to the law on asylum and a new law on foreigners. These legislative acts are intended to…
Visas
The Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine announced an innovation that will speed up and simplify the process of applying for a U.S. nonimmigrant visa. According to the embassy press…
Tourism
The ancient Greeks, in essence, had a very correct conception of the universe: the mighty Ocean flowed around the Earth, full of whirlpools and whitecaps, and across the Earth there was the…
News
Rioting crowds on the streets of Budapest only confirm that the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe have entered a phase of the first serious, comprehensive crisis. That…
News
Country guide
While in Beijing, an Itogi correspondent observed a long line of young parents and their numerous relatives seeking help from the "House of the Proper Name." Such commercial enterprises have recently…
Immigration
As we reported in the previous issue, effective September 1, 2006, the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada introduced a new procedure for submitting immigration applications. This…
Immigration
Recently, Chisinau post offices have been overcrowded with people wanting to send a registered letter to the Romanian embassy with an application for citizenship of that country. According to the…
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It has been two and a half years since ten new countries simultaneously joined the European Union. In about the same amount of time, Austria, Finland and Sweden – states now considered 'old-timers'…