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Well, corruption is there...burbur said that their papers were correct.
I just wanted to add something and may be warn some people...There is a stuipid, post-communist law in Ukraine about tourism!
It sounds something like that every foreigner should be registered with OVIR. Aparantly you're out of trouble if you stay with the hotel. Hotels,(big ones, at least in Kiev) usually provide you with the stamp from Ovir, as far as I know. If you stay in a private appartment for example, you're to go to the OVIR office and ask them to put a stamp in your passport! If you do not have that stamp, and police got you, that's usually the first thing they will get to you asking to pay a "fine". Of course, they make up fines as they go!!! I think that the price ususlly depends on the mood of the policemen, the number of children in his family, and the amount of people caught before you!
I think that something like it could have happened to our friend, burbur. He was very easy to tell out from the crowd for the police, because he had definite sines of being a foreigner...He was darker than average Ukrainian, I assume. Plus, he was at the club!
The same thing happened to my hubby at the airport, 1 1/2 before the flight, a policemen heard him speaking English! He did not have a stamp obviously, his "freedom" costed 60$.
The British guy upfont got raped by a 100$.
The tragic thing is that Ukrainian police knows NO languages and never bothers to get a translator and try somehow to communicate with non-Ukrainian speakers.
I'm not sure about that deal with the customs though! I've been through the customs many times and never had any problems!
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