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Go (1988)  KYIV DESTINATION: The Metro  The Kyiv metro is cheap and easy to use. There are three metro lines.   http://www.metro.kiev.ua/node/101 .    Each station has a number, if digits are your thing.  There are only three intersection stations.  You can download maps from the internet.  Most central stations also have free maps available in the ticket hall. TIP:  Platforms only have one sign with the name of the station, so you cannot rely on looking out of the carriage to see which station you are at. So count the number of stops before you get on the train, and listen out for the name of the next station over the tannoy. The signs in central stations and maps are in English.   Announcements are also made over the tannoy in English inside the carriage.  Some carriages on some lines also have video screens that say the name of the next station. Horizontal information on the direction of travel. Vertic...

Ein bisschen Frieden.... (1982)  Is Ukraine safe?  One question people living here are asked by people abroad is: How safe is Ukraine? One answer is: How safe is anywhere these days?   In short the average tourist will have a safe and great time in Kyiv. There are two issues to tackle: the conflict in the East and general crime. Ukraine is a huge country. The biggest in Europe. On the conflict it's important to stress both the Crimea and the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk are a long way away. The traveller is unlikely to get a sense of the conflict from the streets of Kyiv. The city looks and feels like many other central European capitals.   That's not to say there are underlying worries. Around 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict in the east since April 2014, and over a million people from the east have moved into Ukraine as internally displaced people.  But to find those you have to speak Ukrainian, and either watch TV news, o...