Chop is the smaller border town between Ukrajina and Slovakia, filled with women uniform and men who will change your dollars, euro's or Slovak crowns on the street. The border of Ukrajina has a political high profile, after the planned entrance of Slovakia to Shengen, this will be the very last time you passport will be checked in Europe. It takes you 20 minutes to enter Ukrajina, but more than two hours to get back. Besides European money, the Canadian governement recently donated 4,5 million US dollars to improve the border security as part of the Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (Krakow Post, 10-5-07)
Both Chop and Uzhorod are crowded with gambling houses, small places
with blinded windows in regular houses, which makes you wonder about the effectiveness of the border against smuggling -of cigarettes, cheap vodka and people.
Danka, Chop
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