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Visas

Show a finger, an eye - then the US will accept you

Within the next five years, new high-tech foreign passports will be introduced in the G8 countries. As Gazeta.Ru reports, the chips embedded in the documents will record data on citizens'…

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News

Israel prepares for influx of tourists

Israel's Ministry of Tourism plans to invest two billion shekels in the near future in an advertising campaign aimed at increasing the number of tourists who will visit Israel in 2003 by 400,000…

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Work

Au pair in Germany: family member or servant?

At discos, in courses, or in new circles, I often hear the question: "How come you're in Germany, on the 'au pair' thing?" At first I didn't understand what, in fact, was being said — what this 'au…

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News

Czechs offer refugees a ticket home

Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross has come forward with a proposal to solve the problem of Chechen refugees who moved to the Czech Republic from Poland. He proposes to pay each refugee $3,000…

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Travel

Water March of the Turkish Season

It seems that the creed of the incurable optimist “Every cloud has a silver lining” will find its confirmation also with regard to the new tourist season. The unfavorable impression from unexpected…

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News

French to describe all horrors of tobacco smoking

Cigarette packs on which all the horrors of tobacco smoking will be described will go on sale in France in July. As France-Presse reports, this decision was made in accordance with the European…

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Country guide

Legends and myths of the Northern Palmyra

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Visas

Border Opening Canceled. For Now, Russian Consuls' Salaries Will Depend on Visa Fees

Russian diplomats have proposed to Europeans a plan for a phased transition to the abolition of the visa regime between Russia and the European Union. There was no sharp rejection of this idea from…

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Law zone

Hellas in a Cell

It is no secret that our compatriots, who have flooded the previously hard-to-reach countries of the West and East over the past decade, often ignore their laws out of habit — out of extreme need or…

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Law zone

Playing on Fear

The number of foreigners living in Germany barely amounts to 10% of the country's total population. However, German prisons are overcrowded with foreign criminals: according to official statistics…

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Tourism

The Turkish shore beckons everyone. Europeans have occupied Antalya and its surroundings.

Probably, this is enough to want to immediately head for the Turkish shore. By the way, Turkey has not four seas, but five. Don't believe it? Let's count: the Black Sea washes Turkey from the north -…

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Education

Suffering over Education: Israeli Universities

Not all of us are satisfied with the quality of education received in the CIS countries. So our people go abroad to get an education. One of such places is Israel. And although in light of today's…

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