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Immigration

Asylum Seekers in Sweden Fake Fingerprints

At least 500 foreign nationals who applied for asylum or residence permits in Sweden in 2003 mutilated their fingers to make fingerprinting more difficult. This is reported by Swedish Radio.

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Immigration

US Saves on Programmers

American information technologies are being moved abroad. A survey conducted among top managers of American corporations showed that about 86% of them intend to transfer to other countries the…

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Work

German unemployed seek happiness abroad

While foreigners from all over the world come to Germany hoping to find work here, about 110,000 Germans go abroad for the same purpose every year, reports Deutsche Welle.

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Work

Where in Europe are wages higher?

The highest wages in Europe are paid in Denmark, and the lowest - in Moldova. Such data are contained in a report published by the Federation of European Employers, an independent organization…

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Money

How much is cabbage in England and sausages in Germany

The editors turned to visitors of the forum on the website «Zagranitsy» with a request to provide information about prices for goods and services in different countries. Naturally, readers are least…

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Immigration

Why Russians leave Germany

I foresee that the topic I want to touch on this time will provoke both debate and the most contradictory judgments among readers. Indeed, if every emigrant is able to give an exhaustive answer to…

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Country guide

Brussels' Double Burden. The capital of Belgium and the EU bears it gladly.

Of Brussels' thousand-year history, about eight centuries were under foreign rule: the Burgundian dukes, the Spanish and Austrian emperors, Napoleon, the Dutch neighbors, not to mention two German…

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Health

If suddenly a vacation is marred by illness

Remember what happened to the unlucky tourist in the film “The Diamond Arm”? “He slipped, fell, woke up...” You immediately recall the cheerful parting words of the travel agency manager who handed…

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Tourism

Several ways to ruin a vacation

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Travel

Who Drifts on an Ice Floe

Drifting polar stations are as much Russian know-how as matryoshka or tea with a bite of sugar. This cheap and effective way of exploring the Arctic was invented in 1929 by Vladimir Vize, a…

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Immigration

Prison Life of an Illegal

In December we told the story of Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Shelukhin, sentenced by the Zelenograd court of the Russian capital to deportation and separation from his young Muscovite wife (see…

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Sport

Badminton - a game named after a British town

The essence of the game of badminton is quite simple. The players' task is to use a racket to send the shuttlecock (a feathered ball) over the net to the opponent's half of the court. And, naturally…

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