Banality often contains concentration wisdom of folks. They say, it is not shameful to be poor. Poorest can obtain social security benefits. What is poverty in Austria, how it looks, tastes and smells? Apart from concept, I wanted to know this as personal experience. Being granted with work after five […]
Wealth&poverty
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Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money. If to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich. It seems […]
Whenever I look out of window, and see a piece of blue sky, roofs with black dots of crows at antennas, and hear distant lulling clang of tram, I feel piece and sweet anticipation of new rendezvous with Vienna. I go out and gaze at surrounding curious subjects as newly […]
Journalists belong to special caste. Whoever starts on this thorny way, rarely change profession. The reason is simple: they are forced to proceed. Staff manager of any company apart from PR and news agencies, looking through professional history of applicant, may be alarmed by facts of his intimate affairs with […]
Once great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote that our happiness is usually erected at pedestal of other people misfortune. Mechanism of reality is so that we can feel good only on expense of somebody else. In ethical sphere it is expressed in emotional vampire-like sucking of humans, in social and […]
Der Rubel rollt weiter in Österreich Medienübersicht Russische Investoren Der russische Botschafter Netschajew glaubt, dass Russen weiterhin in Tirols Tourismus investieren werden. Hoteliers orten auch künftig ein hohes Potenzial an russischen Gästen. Russen werden weiterhin in Tirol investieren. Davon geht Sergei Netschajew aus, der russische Botschafter in Österreich. „Das Kapital […]
Galina Toktali: Strassenfotografie „Am Rande“ (Randexistenzen) Vernissage und Ausstellung 4-29 September in Annenstrasse 56, Graz. Strassenfotos von Graz und Wien. One of Graz painters fairly argued that it was no more than trash presentation, as author (me) glued numerous pictures directly to the wall because of rather cramped gallery space
Caritas is a confederation of 164 Roman Catholic organisations in over 200 countries worldwide (including Austria and Russia). Collectively their mission, according to their statement, is to work to build a better world, especially for the poor. The first Caritas organization was started in Germany in 1897. Today, the Confederation is […]
My adventures with Wohnbeihilfe and Austrian post-office Do you know somebody never making mistakes? It must be specie of artificial intellect. Humans simply need to miss a target now and then to guarantee one accurate shot. I don’t claim to be possessor of absolute truth. Like any other mortal, I […]
Styrian SPÖ Governor Franz Voves has spoken up in support of governing coalition with the ÖVP. Voves said: “I was and I am a supporter of this coalition. I think that it is the best solution for the next five-ten years.” Franz Voves – former ice-hockey national team player refused […]