BY SUSAN ESTRICH Kiev did not seem familiar when I visited a few years ago for the first and only time. Old and a little tired, but friendly. Reasonable. It wasn’t scary and off-putting; it was bright and shiny. Red Square meets Beverly Hills, more mirrors than Las Vegas – like the little bright pocket I found myself in when I visited Moscow a few days later. I prefer Ukraine, I told my daughter, who […]

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