KIEV, Ukraine — “No, I won’t exchange your hryvnias back to dollars — unless you have the receipt I gave you a week ago when you first arrived,” says the lady at the currency exchange in the Kiev airport. Discouraged, we take our hryvnias with us back to the United States. That’s right: two years since the launch of “reforms” designed to foster its openness to the West, Ukraine has not even abolished the stupid capital control laws that require each visitor to keep the receipt he is given when he first buys hryvnia for the length of his trip. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
