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Ukraine > Poland

We are mainly students, university teachers and PhD candidates who on the everyday basis face the problem of crossing the border between Ukraine and the EU states and of legalization of our stay in Poland. Having legal basis for stay in Poland we often face welcome attitude from the Polish people, but suspicious and humiliating attitude from the state officials....
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Contributions

How being closed to be open?

Recently I passed through the article of Les Black “Beaches and graveyards: Europe's haunted borders“ on eurozine.com about the small border town between France and Spain in which his life ended philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin.... >>
Myra Plus | 19.6.2008

BRAKING DISTANCES

Contemporary life provides person with various means of communication with family and friends. When someone migrates abroad one of the first things s/he does is to find a way of communication with them.... >>
Myra Plus | 1.5.2008

Encore visas…

Last months I did not travel much and if I did so it was crossing non-existent borders between the Schengen states where no one was checking my passport.... >>
Myra Plus | 3.4.2008

The Dangers of Crossing Non-Existent Borders

Benjamin Cope After the entrance of both Poland and Lithuania into the Schengen Zone I had assumed that the night-bus journey from Warsaw to Vilnius (to teach at the Belarusian European Humanities University, now existing in exile in ... >>
Myra Plus | 29.2.2008

Yura's travellings for visa

Two years ago I was present at the Conference on the European identity held in the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw. One of speakers was the Ukrainian Minister of Tourism Ihor Lihowyj.... >>
Myra Plus | 28.1.2008

Second Try...

Two weeks of worries and sleepless nights past and I went to submit my documents for the Polish visa to the Consulate in Lviv. My trip to L’viv started with broken bus in the middle of nowhere and with desperation that I will not manage to get to ... >>
Myra Plus | 9.1.2008

My first time…

This passing year was for me a time for starting many things. For instance I started to drink alcohol and I was drunk for the first time since I was teenager. It was year of starting to smoke cigarettes and hopefully it finished on starting.... >>
Myra Plus | 19.12.2007

Invitation letters

In my travels through Europe I did not have problems with making visas and invitations letters. I was usually invited by universities or research institutions and the documents they sent me had enough number of signatures and stamps of important ... >>
Myra Plus | 1.12.2007

Trip to Malta

This summer my friend Ruslan Salamatin, assistant professor at the Medical University of Warsaw decided to go on vacations to Malta. In order not get bored from sightseeing or staying on the beach he combined it with English language courses.... >>
Myra Plus | 20.11.2007

Money matters…

I live in Warsaw but originally I am from L’viv in Ukraine. Because of my PhD studies in Warsaw and a need to travel back home I had possibility to cross the Polish-Ukrainian border often.... >>
Myra Plus | 1.11.2007

 

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