Kolos: I just got back from the Ukraine myself. I spent two weeks there in Donetsk, Mariupol, Odessa and Kiev. I went with my son on business and have to say it was a very enjoyable trip. My sight seeing was restricted to the time I had left at the end of the trip in Kiev. I went to the war museum, the old villages of the east I think their called, real old. And the monastary with its underground caverns. Overlooked the city from near the presidential palace and took in some of the local cuisine. I found the food to be the best in both Odessa on the Black Sea and in Donetsk. Someday I hope to go back. It was not as much a cultural shock as China was because I think both Russians and Ukrainians are more western than the Chinese. It was a nice place to spend time in.
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