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On September 18, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Denis Coderre, called a press conference to announce significant changes to the country's immigration system. Canada has come to its…
As we reported in the previous issue of "Zagranitsa", the Russian president has prepared a draft of softening amendments to the law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation". Last week this document…
Russian Toronto considers the concessions of Canada's immigration authorities a populist step on the eve of the upcoming federal elections. On September 18, what was to be expected happened -…
The small-population State of Israel abounds with various religions. It is simply impossible not to encounter the life of the religious population of this country: Arab quarters, residential areas…
Finally, I managed to go to America through the Open World program, founded five years ago by the director of the US Library of Congress, a specialist in Russian culture and history, James…
Ukrainian sport as a whole is a heterogeneous phenomenon. It has both strengths and weaknesses. But fortunately, there are more of the former. Ukraine's most valuable asset is its athletes, whose…
Filled with the desire to visit friends in Spain for a couple of weeks, hugging a language self-study book, I briskly set off to the then still distant Spanish embassy in Kiev. Knowledgeable people…
At the beginning of September, the faction of the Free Democratic Party of Germany in the Bundestag adopted a policy document proposing a moratorium until the end of 2007 on the further admission of…
The penitentiary system of Switzerland, like that of other countries, in principle, solves a single task: the correction of people who have broken the law. However, as IA Rosbalt notes, these systems…
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft law "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation." With the law entering into…
A two-day meeting of the board of trustees of the German foundation “Memory, Responsibility and Future,” which is in charge of paying financial compensation to former forced laborers of National…
Education in Germany, according to the Constitution, is a civil right. Every child is required to attend a general education school for at least nine years, and then at least three more years in a…