Tourist , guest and anybody who arrives to Ukraine face with the necessity of residence in a period of stay. It is very well when a company or a tour agent already took care of you and provided apartments. But if it is not so?
In Ukraine, (for example in Kiev) since 2000, business under the name «Rent apartments for 24 hours’» is roughly growing. Let’s look into what their advantage and disadvantage in comparison with hotels.
In most cases, rent apartment for 24 hour’s, you work with physical person which does not have legal basis to carry on this business. The Internet sites are the main field for the client getting which did not go to the hotel. Many of them are translated into English and directed to the foreign citizens. But it does not mean that quality of provided services is below than in a hotel. Apartments also can be Luxe, Economy, and Standard. They can be from

Did you notice how many English words entered to Ukrainian during the last years?The words «Sponsor, «Consensus», «Mentality» became frequently used in Ukrainian vocabulary.

Someone considers the «Mentality as the total of property of certain nation, others consider as the special determination of signs of nation which shows in periods of historical development. Certainly, every nation has own signs. During the centuries, they aren’t specially changed, as well as the mentality is not changeable.

The greatest sign of Ukrainian mentality development in a history of Ukraine is a period of Zaporizhian Sich, Cossacks, social spirit which is known in a world culture as Cossacks – Christian republic. We delight with heroism of Cossacks, but we can’t forget that Cossacks was peculiar not only heroism such as they are people, which had to live

in time of war

The ceremonies (traditions) are one of the main components of Culture of Ukraine.  They were always different for the originality and the fairy-tale reason. Nowadays some of them are followed. But they are followed in out of the way villages of Ukraine, where signs of civilization and modernization are lacking. Traditions of the Ukrainian people are mainly connected with holidays: New Year, Christmas.

I will tell you about the ceremonies of New Year and Christmas in Ukraine in this publication.

Special attention was paid to the supper at Christmas night, such as rich supper, the wide name of dishes accompanied to sufficiency and wealth of Ukrainian family. Festive supper was implied preparation of 12 dishes, 9 or 7 dishes, where Ukrainian carousing was the main. As the supper began from the peasant ceremonies (reading of prayer) but saved the feature of pagan culture of «fort