Everyone knows the difference between our Soviet educational system and the American one. In our country, pupils and students received more knowledge about everything, and consequently were famous for the whole world by general erudition. The average Soviet student equally know and understand the poetry of the early Byron and in tangents with cotangents, in verbal nouns …
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A family of father, mother and two children is approaching me along the promenade. They are walking, loudly discussing something, gnawing seeds and throwing the husks to the ground at the same time.
I approach the head of the family, who is about my age, even, perhaps, younger, …
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The European population density led to the appearance of very small restaurants. Here it is a usual thing to sit at neighboring tables and almost touch the elbows of neighbors. At the same time, at each table, couples conduct their conversations, not being ashamed of their neighbors. Probably because nobody cares about others. Nobody eavesdrops and …
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Honestly, I do not know how form my opinion to this grandiose event, because I have no information.
On the one hand, I understand that the Olympics will entail huge expenditures from the budget. But how much? Does anybody know? Tell me. Not to me personally, but to …
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In Europe, I noticed a lot of attention is paid to the environment. This is the theme slips in many areas of life.
For example, go to a restaurant, and there on a tray it is written that it is made of natural decomposing substances. On a napkin.
You check into …
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For many years on vacation I’ve been driving myself on the roads of Europe. Riding an autobahn is not a job but a pleasure there.
During this time I learned a few lessons that I want to share with those who are only going to plow the expanses of Europe.…
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One of the fundamental principles of democracy is – “the partition of power.” Its essence lies in the fact that the three branches of power: legislative, executive and judicial should be independent from each other. Only under this condition does the “checks and balances” system will start to work. In the theory of state and …
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Recently my son taught me a lesson in democracy.
That is how it was.
We drove the whole family (my wife, daughter, son, and I) by car. Our daughter loves music, and the son – silence. My daughter asked me to turn on the music. My wife and I were not against, so turned it …
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Probably everyone has a friend who earns respect through touchiness and vindictiveness?
In relation to these people you can often hear something like “We must invite him to the birthday party, or he will be offended.”
And then at the party everyone …
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Recently a friend of mine showed me some photos from an event. Proud, he told me that he was sitting at one table with the director of the department of one national company, the chief of service in the law enforcement agency, and so on. “Important people,” he said, “they are aware of their worth. And …
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