There is dirt on the streets of Kyiv that you won’t see in Minsk - German writer
In the Ukrainian capital, poverty is glaring and wealth is on display.
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Such impressions were left by the current Kyiv of the German writer Navid Kermani, whose travel diary publishes Spiegel magazine.
“...this is a city that is simultaneously actively developing and decaying, in one place there are picturesque, dilapidated old buildings, and in another there is gentrification, the gentrification of the area, as a result of which ordinary life is pushed out of the alleys, and there are trams from the Cold War; in Minsk everything was top-notch, but here there is dirt on the streets, which was nowhere to be found in Minsk, and poverty is more striking, and wealth is more boastfully flaunted,” Navid Kermani describes Kyiv.
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