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Personal experience

The Nightmare of the Two-Thirds System

I think that a second-class railway carriage with three-berth compartments is absent from Prague's 'Museum of Medieval Torture' solely due to chronological inconsistency. Of course, the carriage is…

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Immigration

Try to Please Manitoba

A year ago, an agreement was signed between the Government of Canada and the administration of the Canadian province of Manitoba, under which the provincial authorities received the right to…

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Tourism

How a Tourist Can Save Money

Besides total economy, there are several partial savings that appear at those stages of travel when you need to pay for it. So, you can reduce the cost of a trip by saving on: visa, transportation…

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Country guide

The Land of Maple Syrup

"Oh, what a great country Canada is," Zhora Gershwin told me over a mug of ginger beer in Toronto. Zhora emigrated to Canada three years ago and therefore had the right to discuss the advantages and…

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Personal experience

Myths of Silicon Village

"Russian American Dream" is not quite the same as the "American Dream" in the original. As a rule, initially Russians' desires focus on satisfying material wants – a car, a house, credit cards.

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Immigration

Deceivers Are Not Liked in the USA

Generally speaking, deceiving is bad. And deceiving government officials is also dangerous, warns 'Inostranets'. Especially when it comes to employees of the consular section of the US Embassy, in…

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Work

How to Get a Job in an Ambulance Service

Every person moving abroad faces difficulties finding a job in their specialty. But it is especially hard for doctors – in many countries, primarily the United States, foreign medical diplomas are…

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Everyday life

To Die in Peace

The secure and cloudless old age of Canadian citizens is marred by only one circumstance: like other, cloudy and insecure old ages of citizens of less prosperous corners of the planet, it ends in…

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Curiosities

Sergeant in a Skirt

A cute little girl has been talking on her cell phone for about forty minutes, not forgetting (when the bus skids on curves) to carefully hold a machine gun on her lap. A visiting tourist from Kyiv…

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Immigration

Who Can Emigrate to Canada and How

The easiest way to emigrate to Canada is for those who have relatives there. But not distant relatives, but very close ones: husband or wife, fiancée or fiancé, unmarried child. You can invite a…

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Immigration

"...del ecuador": A Brief Course

A good song about Ecuador was popular last year. Those who saw the video remembered the high mountains, endless expanses of tropical forest, and the blue expanse of the ocean. Such is the Ecuadorian…

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Personal experience

Tales and True Stories of Silicon Village

Dmitry Kokhmanyuk graduated from the Cybernetics Department of Kyiv University and left for the USA in 1996. For the third year he has been working as a network system administrator at a software…

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