Viktor Pinchuk

“ Soon the warden really came to... take the old man to the toilet. After that, the procedure was performed in relation to me. I was lying on the bunk and looking at the ceiling. After a while the" boss" showed up again. He moved two convicts from the next cell to the old man, thus giving me a "separate room".
Put up with the fate of a prisoner, and also knowing that it was impossible to bring a camera to such a place, I tried to remember what I saw so that I could describe later. So, the cell I was in was a room of about one and a half by three meters, in which there were only two-tiered bunks. ”

“ Perhaps even more interesting than India, where there are more tourists than flies. The second reason is an affordable visa, which I received at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Kiev the day after submitting the documents. Although, in principle, I could have had it on the same day: employees pretended to be busy for the sake of assumed importance.
Across the border — on foot ...On an ordinary city minibus, I drove up to the bridge separating two countries — Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. ”

“ Shuravi! " ...About a week has passed since crossing the border of Afghanistan. I got a little used to the environment, I was no longer surprised that there are paramilitary police posts in Kabul every 50 meters, which may sometimes ask to show documents for verification.
One fine Afghan evening came out of mehmunsarai, where I lived ("an institution" where people eat during the day and sleep at night. — Author's note) to buy something inexpensive for dinner. ”