British hotel group InterContinental opened 5-star hotel InterContinental in Kiev on 2A, Velyka Zhytomyrska Street on the 27th of August, 2009. It is is conveniently located in the very center of Kiev, with walking distance from famous Khreshchatik Street, St.Michael’s and Saint Sophia Cathedrals and just next to the Hyatt Regency Kyiv. Leon Larkin, the general manager of the Intercontinental hotel informed the journalists about the Hotel opening.

Ukraine postponed new rules of entering Ukraine for citizens of 85 countries. The introduction of new rules of entering Ukraine, as it was reported on Wednesday, August 26 in Tiraspol by a special representative of Ukraine in Trans-Dniester Victor Kryzhanovskiy. According to these rules foreigners will be obliged to provide information on their financial state at the Ukrainian border. It could be cash or financial means on the account for about 1000 euro.

Recently I’ve got a call and later this email from my British friend, which you could read below. Seems anti-American attitude is very strong in Crimea and this is sad.
“I arrived in Feodosia on July 2009. At approximately 4am on Sunday morning, august 2009, I stopped at a small kiosk near the seafront in the centre of the city, outside the Arkadiya club, in order to buy a small bottle of still water. I asked the woman behind the counter in Russian for ”pol litre wada, bez gaza, pazhalusta”.

Citizens of such CIS countries as Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan and 85 African, Asian and Middle East countries will be obliged to provide information on their financial state at the Ukrainian border …

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