French restaurants are offering customers a new service: from now on, a customer can take home an unfinished bottle of wine. As France Info radio reported, the initiative came from the Bordeaux…
In Paris, haute couture life persistently offers itself on Avenue Montaigne. This short street is a continuous string of shops of great fashion creators - from Kenzo to Karl Lagerfeld. The main…
In France, night shelters will be opened for the homeless, where people can take refuge from severe frost. The police prefect of the French capital, Jean-Paul Proust, by his order launched a campaign…
By a decision of the French government, tobacco prices have been increased by 15%. This is the most significant price increase in the last ten years. An ordinary pack of cigarettes now costs four…
Representatives of the Russian emigration in France and their family members will be issued annual multiple-entry Russian visas free of charge starting June 1. The Russian Foreign Ministry made this…
For the sixth consecutive year, France has seen a steady increase in the number of political refugees, which reached 51,087 new applications in 2002. As the French newspaper Le Monde writes, this is…
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…
Two Russian pimps who controlled about a hundred prostitutes were arrested in France, RIA Novosti reports.
It has long been known that a minute of laughter replaces a glass of sour cream. And now it has also become an antidepressant. In Paris and other French cities, there is a new craze: in the last year…
The French authorities have drafted a law that significantly toughens liability for traffic violations. French President Jacques Chirac said that the situation on the country's roads is 'one of the…