By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] The Ukrainian village makes a depressing impression. No, I know that the Russian countryside does not create the feeling of well-fed Switzerland, I have traveled, I have an idea. But when you enter another village near Kiev, it's hard to get rid of the feeling that this is a reservation for very poor, disenfranchised people who are absolutely indifferent to the benefits of modern civilization. Liquid fences, flimsy rickety shacks, their gray inhabitants in terrible and tattered rags, antediluvian Zhiguli with still Soviet license plates, which can be driven no further than the next street, meager kitchen gardens...
