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Buying Air and Train Tickets

Tourism, business trips, traveling to visit relatives - in any of these cases we use air travel, so it is important to organize this flight in such a way as to arrive with the maximum level of…

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Visas

Italy to Temporarily Leave Schengen

Italy will suspend issuance of Schengen visas for the duration of the G8 summit in order to ensure security measures in the central region of Abruzzo, where the meeting is being moved from the island…

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Real estate

Next to Dracula

The boom in the Romanian real estate market started relatively recently, before the country's accession to the European Union (2007). Local companies, as well as Scandinavian, English and Israeli…

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Tourism

Weekend in Poznań – Half Price

The Poznań Tourist Organization together with the city administration, hotels, restaurants and museums has prepared a special promotion. On June 13 and 14, an unforgettable weekend in the city can be…

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Everyday life

Vienna – Best City for Living and Working

The Austrian capital has been named the most convenient city for living and working. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by Mercer. The data obtained in the global quality of life…

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Tourism

Travel to Mexico Not Recommended

Russia's Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko recommends Russians refrain from traveling to Mexico, where dozens have died of so-called swine flu.

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Tourism

Best hotels named in Cyprus

The best hotel in Cyprus in March 2009 was Columbia Beach, located in the village of Pissouri. On the popular hotel booking site Booking.com it scored 9.4 points out of a possible 10. Second place…

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Work

Belgium to Let in 'Polish Plumber'

Belgium will open its national labor market on May 1 to workers from Eastern European countries that joined the European Union in May 2004. According to the newspaper 'Libre Belgique', this decision…

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Work

Migrants find it hard to find work in Moscow

More than a third of migrants who came to the Russian capital to earn money have been unable to find work. Such data was provided by the head of the Moscow migration service department, Fedor…

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Tourism

Seoul introduces taxis for foreigners

In the capital of South Korea, special taxis for foreigners will start operating on May 1, 2009. According to the Moscow office of the Korea Tourism Organization, the Seoul administration made this…

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Education

How They Gnaw the Granite of Science

It's one thing to read descriptions of the best foreign schools and universities in advertising brochures, and another to face the real-life trials of those who went abroad to gnaw the granite of…

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Tourism

People Move to Live Underground

Most cities of the world, with their skyscrapers and small houses, wide straight avenues and narrow winding streets, are located on the surface of the earth. But sometimes there, below, at a depth of…

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