Snow skiing is available at very reasonable costs. No fishing licenses are required or even available. What is referred to, as Crimea by Westerners is known locally as Krim. Yalta and Sevastopol are located there.
Otherwise, most of the fish here is not what most westerners would consider good game fish except pike. Locally they are known as Chukka Krim has a protecting arm of mountains looking outward to the Black Sea. It is known of as the Riviera of Ukraine! Many rich people live there. Huge amounts of formal and typically necessary paperwork must be kept and safely stored for future situation s.
Notarization of legal documents includes the hand sewing with red thread of the documents that are more than one page in length. No one here in any governmental office seems in a rush to get his or her work done. They are frequently quite slow and not particularly efficient.
A simple request for a residence application can take several trips to the same office and waiting for hours each time to be seen! Readily available clean restrooms are rare and frequently a huge disappointment. One smells them long before one actually sees them, especially in summer. Best to be aware of the possibility of this and search for the more honest traders.
The food in restaurants lacks variety and does not really tempt the palates of American especially. There are now a few non-smoking restaurants which are not all that bad.
All of these are located on Prospect Lenina in Nikolaev and easily found. Kiev, the capital has a new Ukraine Building near the train station that has a good variety of styles of food and it too is totally non-smoking!
Characterwise, many Ukrainians have a different view of ethics and will seldom admit to making a mistake — I feel sure this is something to do with having lived for decades under a strict communist regime, but it is a difficult trait to get used to.
Work should always be supervised and it is unwise to pay upfront as the temptation to just disappear with the loot is too great. Decent quality clothing and shoes are really rather expensive here and the variety is severely limited.
This is slowly changing. Ukraine is, for the most part, a dismal and somewhat at first glance depressing place visually, owing largely to the ubiquitous gray apartment buildings in which most people here live. Lack of investment in the cities leads to broken pavements and overflowing rubbish bins and there is a lack of variety in the shops, but this is just a difference in lifestyle due to may years of past economic decline.
If you can handle the negatives, Ukraine still has a lot to offer. I prefer to live here than in the states mostly due to the general sense of Freedom and economic and political advantages. Remember I feel safer here than in any large U. Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia were stable until , with positive attitudes ranging from 65 percent in the west to 93 percent in the east. These figures belied allegations of a Russophobic western Ukraine; only twenty percent of the public there held negative views of Russians.
Not surprisingly, the major shift in opinion took place after A major gulf in attitudes rose regarding Crimea, whose annexation was supported by 87 percent of Russians and opposed by 69 percent of Ukrainians.
Seventy-nine percent of Russians linked that action to the revival of Russia as a great power and a return to Russia's rightful dominance of the former Soviet Union. Positive Russian attitudes toward Ukraine once again dramatically collapsed during the Euromaidan, which was portrayed in massive state-sponsored information campaigns as a Western-backed coup bringing Russophobes and fascists to power.
Russians believe the official propaganda that there was a "democratic referendum" in Crimea, that Ukrainians shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, that there is a civil war in Ukraine, and that there are no Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.
Two-thirds of Ukrainians, but only a quarter of Russians, understand the conflict as a Russian-Ukrainian war. Beginning in spring , Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia begin to massively change—not because of any state-directed propaganda campaigns but in response to Putin's military aggression. By mid, positive views of Russia had fallen to 52 percent.
The Ukrainian and Russian languages are the same. It is always freezing in Ukraine. Western Ukrainians are ardent nationalists. Borscht and salo are everyday dishes. Ukrainian women chase rich foreigners. Ukrainians only drink vodka. Give us feedback. Read Next. Hand Picked Places to Stay in Ukraine. Royal Apartment Zhukovskogo 9. Apart-hotel Horowitz. Mirax Sapphire Boutique Hotel. Best Two Room Apartment. Stanislavskiy Dvir.
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