Communication, communications, mass-media

Post offices are in all cities and settlements and in large villages. Before to send cards or letters in souvenir envelopes, necessarily check up in post office, whether there corresponds mark of range of the correspondence. In Ukraine stamps without instructions of monetary cost are accepted, it is replaced with an alphabetic index. Necessarily specify a return address (the constant residence or a stay place in Crimea). For the international parcels and parcels post there are customs restrictions.

In public telephone booths of resorts, and in streets there are automatic machines with a digital international telecommunication. The computer centres with capital letters more money have the Internet from kiddies with a game syndrome, therefore not strongly be under a delusion with speed of communication with the electronic mail box.

Mobile phones work in standards GSM 900, GSM 1800, NMT. The network of Kievstar rather well works. But in any case it is more reliable (though and roaming services are more expensive). And the most reliable and cheap to call to Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan by special preferential cards through automatic machines of digital telecommunication.

TV in large hotels and private boarding houses with satellite channels. In other places 3-4 national channels in an Ukrainian language and Russian languages and 2-4 local channels in Russian, popular Russian teleprograms including in the announcement work.

Radio in a range of average waves - the state Ukrainian channels, in a range 90-110 FM - commercial is musical-information channels, for quite some time now in the Ukrainian language, for example, "+ш= ¶ь" and "рѕёёъюх Ёрфшю".

Igor Rusanov