Oh, I see you had great experience there!
It seems you studied the local reality much more better than tourists who visits some historical places in the capital and then go back home. You blame Hyundai Accent to be slow... well, I guess you should've tried a 'classical' Russian car such as an old-time looking LADA to find out what the REAL SLOW car was.
What do you mean drivers were crazy? Driving 150 km/h along a single lane road with pits and scratches making dozens overtakings a minute? It's not that unusual both in Russia and Ukraine. Anyway, this is natural selection, I mean the society has been losing it's idiots this way.
Seriously, driving from city to city here is a bit dangerous, I understand you, it's a bit better in Belarus, though. Here are almost no autobahns, and drivers do drive as if they were on an autobahn. :blink: Well, tankmen drinking vodka right at their tank... did you make shots? I've never seen such a thing. Ukrainian army seems to be the coolest!
By the way, you could cross from Ukraine to Romania with no visa problems, why did you consider Moldova instead?
Oh, old ladies selling goods (mostly potato, berries, mushrooms, right?). Nice... Here they got too lazy and may be too organized to keep this road trade
, so it's mostly common in Belarus and Ukraine. Well, I'm waiting for the pictures of together Lenin and Carlo, would you post some here?
Sure you should visit Russia and St.Petersburg! The experience will be probably a bit different (Ukraine is generally more provincial and rural while St.Petersburg area is quite industrial and highly populated), but with the same funny stuff you like.