I think that the EU is seen the same way from Great Britain and from Serbia. The people wants to get (or stay) out, while the political and economical ruling classes want in. And since it's the latter who are running the country, well... Because in the eyes of your average Brit, the EU is mostly a s...

Russian standard information is always in metric, so that was it. And who needs porn when you have threads like this! It's like when I was a kid and went for the first time to the D-Day museums in Normandy and climbed on a tank for the first time in my life again! And as it has already been said, I'...

Damn, I'm one hell of a kid on this forum lol. My first World Cup memories are from 1998! I'm French, and remember the overall frenzy that invaded the whole country and sparked my interest for football, while my family never was too much into it.

I found most of Paris to be quite underwhelming. It's possible to have a good time there, as long as it isn't in the places that are listed in the big touristic guides. It's better to chat with someone who lives there, or who has traveled there a lot, on the Internet before going there, because if y...

It's truly sobering to read the stories of families that lost all of their children in the war. My wife's Russian, so it's something that hits close to home for her : there isn't one family who didn't lost someone during WW2, and 90% of the young men born in 1923 died during WW2. But what sets Russi...