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Svalbard Doomsday Vault

For lovers of interesting and unusual vacations, a trip to Svalbard will be one of the most memorable and vivid. The charm of permafrost, wild, untouched nature will not leave even the most spoiled…

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Auto tour

Uzbek Ravon fills the car market

Assembly of the updated Ravon sedan has started at the Uzbek plant. The first batch of Uzbek novelties has already been shipped to Russia. The new Ravon brand, owned by Uzbekistan, replaced the…

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News

To Czechia for work

The total number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic is approaching half a million. There are no official data for 2016 yet, so currently the record year is 2015 – 465 thousand foreigners. The…

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Law zone

Refugees Practice Social Fraud

For several weeks now, a special investigative unit has been working in Lower Saxony, dealing exclusively with cases of illegal receipt of financial benefits by refugees who have arrived in this…

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Everyday life

Keep your documents with you

Carrying a passport (Pass, Personalausweis) or another identity document is mandatory in Germany. Failure to have such a document on hand is punishable by a fine of up to 5,000 euros. What other…

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Education

Where the Most Capable Study

University rankings are traditionally led by US and UK institutions. But do their graduates really know that much? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently published the…

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Everyday life

You have to work part-time on a pension

From 1999 to mid-2016, the number of German residents over 65 with a full-time job almost quadrupled. According to the latest data from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), these figures rose from…

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Everyday life

How Germany Eats

An overabundance of cookbooks with gorgeous photos, internet blogs overflowing with recipes, trendy street food and farmers' markets – all these phenomena of the time are apparently widely…

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Everyday life

Professional Inclination to Infidelity

What drives some members of the fair sex to seek pleasure outside of marriage – new love, a thirst for adventure, or simply sexual need? Psychologists may be able to answer this question. But a…

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Everyday life

In Wolfsburg They Pay More

There is a significant territorial difference in the incomes of German residents. This follows from the official response of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to a request from the…

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Integration

Czech Republic Counts Foreigners

The Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) has released data on foreigners working in the country – their numbers, fields of employment, and average salaries. The report for the full calendar year (2015) was…

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Work

Part-time job during holidays

Look left – Neuschwanstein Castle. Look right – crystal clear Alpine lakes. That's roughly how Iryna from Kharkiv describes her holidays. Three years ago, she spent the summer in a Bavarian town near…

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