Article at BBC

[vivandr]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3701867.stm

This article is not related to genealogy, but it shows what is the life like currently in Ukraine. Story told there relates to millions of Ukrainian families, especially to former Galicia as it is the closest to Western Europe.

[Zbyszek]

Originally posted by vivandr

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3701867.stm

This article is not related to genealogy, but it shows what is the life like currently in Ukraine. Story told there relates to millions of Ukrainian families, especially to former Galicia as it is the closest to Western Europe.

Yes Vivandr, we hear plenty of such stories across the PL-UA border. People coming from Ukraine are often pessimistic about the future because of the seemingly omnipotent Ukrainian mafia. One Ukrainian who found a job in the rural environment somewhere between Lublin and Warsaw told me that he tried to introduce inexpensive agricultural services somewhere near Pavlivka, Volhynia. Mafia burned his tractor one day because they still wanted to charge 300 hryvnias per hour of work in the field which is terribly expensive (comparable cost of such services in Poland is eguivalent to 150-200 hryvnias with considerably higher level of average wages and higher oil prices).
I feel Poland should show more helpful attitude for Ukrainians who have very good opinion as workers here (except mafia rascals who are exported to parasite on every possible deals concerning Ukrainians). Unfortunately Poland is currently experiencing a lot of troubles with unemployment.