Not really a place I used to be. On business the turnover is almost nothing. So I am not too much there.
Exactly the reason I went there to see it with my own eyes.
It was pretty wired,
in 24 h....
2 cutoms officers
1 police (after work in civil)
3 police in uniforms in a car (I used to chase away the first)
2 police patrolling the street
3 military police (who accompanied the two aboce)
...wanted bribery.
I made them a hard time in avoiding this, with 4 years of Russia experience.
It happens everywhere that government officials (usually the traffic police) mix up a foreigner and a cash maschine.
But this amount of incounters was extrem. I am not sure if I just had very bad luck or if it is normal. But unfortunately I guess it is.
Then there was also a raid of masked special forces (something you hear in Russia, but appears very rarely)... with all people around me seems to be with perfectly fine.
Yap, and finally we went over to Kiev on a ferry which was merely a steel raft with some cars on it which a guys pulled over the river on a steel rope.
All in all, Ukraine and Russia seemed very high developed afterwards.
I feel like Moldova never really came out of the situation, where Russia was in the wild 90s.
Thanks good Russia made a long way to become this country where I enjoy to life in (even though this blog not always sound like :)
