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In Liberia, Sergey Chernyshev - almost a local celebrity. Ukrainian White on red "Khamer" here alone. Three years ago, he moved to the West African country and opened a casino.
 - Ukraine does not want us to work there. I turned a desperate situation. I had a huge amount of equipment that has been impossible to apply. Ten years I spent in Ukraine, were left with nothing - sadly says Sergey.





Ukraine Chernyshev engaged in gambling. I had room 424 across the country. Powered by a 2, 5 thousand people. But when the government of Yulia Tymoshenko has introduced a ban on gambling, it's had to cover.



But do not despair, Odessa began to look for a country where you can apply the knowledge, experience and equipment purchased for ten years at home. The choice fell on Liberia.



The country had just ended a protracted civil war. In her abysmal depths of gold and diamonds. A gambling are only two on the whole state. However, small and very poor.



 - The specificity of the gambling industry says that the poorer the country, the more it is played - explains the businessman. - The more people believe in luck. In fact this is the case. And there are absolutely normal casino comrades.
As soon as the Sergei pulls up to his institution, he immediately meets the black guard. Opens the door in the machine, and then the door to the casino.



The establishment is a few rows of slot machines and roulette table. One of the machines is called "13 chairs". On the screen - the image of Ostap Bender. Before the machine was in Odessa. Now motives Ilf and Petrov studied in Africa.



Here paradise for business, be sure to Ukrainian. The country has almost no regulatory bodies, as tax authorities absent. Contributions to the budget of the country Sergey personally discussed with the Deputy Minister of Finance of Liberia. By the way, according to Ukrainian businessman, members of the government of the country can be found sitting in his underwear on the steps of his office. It's hot!
 - When I was visited by Deputy Minister of Finance, I began to ask him questions smart, I must also pay taxes. He: Of course, should. I: How much to pay? He said, well, how much should be? Seven percent have to pay what you have earned. I say, good. And as we assume? Is there some kind of a cash register? He hatched on my eyes, and so in all seriousness said to me: Hey, are you in there somewhere as you write yourself, how much you earn. I say: Well, of course I will. Well, with this and pay. All! Here I am currently writing this and crying - laughing businessman.



When the case went to the gambling business, Sergey decided to mine gold here also. The license for its production received six months.
 - Ochenoriginalno I got a license, - says Sergey. - I came, said I need a license. They told me that you need to pay a hundred thousand dollars. I tell them - no. I do not have that kind of money. I'm sorry I went. Two months passed, they came to me and they say, well, let's for 50 thousand we'll do that, because you already ours, yours. I say, guys, that's 50 I could two months ago, and now can only ten. They are not, not, not ... For ten or not. Over ten thousand we license to you we do not. It is possible, this does not happen. I say, well, there is no, then do not happen. In short, after six months I have received the license for $ 500.,
After that Ukrainian concluded that in this country can not make anything in advance. Otherwise there would be no money, no license. And the most important thing, and no one to complain about something.
The country has national laws are only in the capital - Monrovia. All the rest of the population lives under the laws of the jungle, or as they are called here "tradishional lo" (law tradition). Meet him Odessits had when he went to the outskirts of Liberia, to fight off his land, where he intended to extract the precious metal. Spokesman introduced him to the local people. He said that now the white man is on their land to mine gold. Local were very hospitable. Hosted an official meeting. Old people dancing in front of him, the woman spat in his face chewed local potatoes, which is considered a great sign of respect, and the children pulled from a live chicken feathers and Ukrainian inserted into the hair. It would seem, that's all, you can let him rest in his tent. But there it was. To the white lined up. Local men brought their wives.
 - He brings his wife and said, we want a good baby, so you have to sleep with her, - says Sergey was surprised. - The first day came to me at all ten of their wives.
This prohibition is that the guest had not slept with African women, can only give an elder. Deny - bad form.
 - I gathered rally. And I told them the story, with a translator, however, that in my country, I was dedicated to his God. Here I weigh cross. I got married in the temple of the special and then I have no right to sleep with others. If I do that with someone, then, firstly, this person will have a very big problem and I will be their God in big trouble. Secondly, the offspring will be born unfruitful. It will be miserable, terrible, and the like. As for the wife is better not to talk. A wife, no wife - for them is on the drum. They themselves have here a bunch of women have lovers, quite openly. Males have a bunch of mistresses. For them, this is normal. If you slept with another man's wife, then if we got a sworn husband, he can knock you out of the five thousand Liberian dollars. It is less than a hundred American dollarov- it's fine for that matter.



Gold in the jungle lying almost under their feet. On the ground lay the stones with veins of precious metal. The exploration area the past few days. To get back to the camp at sundown. At night the jungle turned into a living organism, where all each other and running around trying to eat.



On one of those evenings organized local court.
 - They gathered the whole village and sing: "Mayama-oh!", "Mayama-bi!". This song was prolonged to five in the evening until three o'clock in the morning, - says Sergey. - The Court is that they cause devila, ie Devil in God do not believe local. His arrival was very original. There was a frantic cry. It seems that someone cut. And he came out of the jungle the Devil. Such painted all. In lime, as I understand it. Because it was all white. It was a bunch of feathers.
This shaman introduced to date that there was a dispute in the village. Its residents collected money and sent a woman with sons item store. Of the purchased goods have missed something.
 - Dragged the woman. Elders began in a circle, and the Devil took a knife and cut off her ear. First, cut off one, then a second. She screamed, natural pain - says Odessa. - And these elders stood and mumbled top "Boo Boo Boo !!". Here it is. Like, so she stopped. Or someone they called at the same time. Once he figured out his ears, he began to cut the leather straps from her back. Well, that's bloody body in the end they were dragged and thrown into a pit.
The children of a woman tied to a deck and dragged through the village until it tore. Then, too, they threw them into the pit. Such was the verdict of the court. What these people were tried, Sergei learned in a few days. Among the goods purchased villagers missed one cans of Coke ...
It is now all is well with Sergei business. The first six months were given a hard time. Cathay us Monrovia Ukrainian stops at the local prison, about the conditions in which a legend. This is either a cell packed with people, or just a pit, covered with bars. Ukrainians came to the prison to visit. Someone wrote on behalf of the power of attorney to one and a half thousand dollars.



 - I was dragged to court and demanded that I paid off. To pay fifteen hundred dollars. They show me the paper, which was allegedly signed out of my face. They said that for me to sign my lawyer. Although I never had a lawyer and attorney never given, - says Sergey. - Called it was the fact that I'm new here, and they just want to fuck with my money. So I found myself here, and his wife was forced to pay. Only after that they let me go.
 - I was shocked when we got here, - says Ukrainian wife Lily.
 - Why?
-I Was shocked by the standard of living in the first place. That's what struck me most. Then gradually we got used to it.
Lily here with my husband on the first day.
 - At first I was very surprised that they are very lazy. But in principle, there are also some very good people, hardworking, - she added.



Lilia helps her husband in the business. In his free time preparing. Sometimes Ukrainian cuisine. But this is problematic in Liberia. To prepare the soup, you need to overtake Lille several stores to find the right products.
 - We buy seafood. There are a lot of crabs, lobsters, shrimp. The baskets bring. All living things - says the wife of a businessman.
 - And still want to borscht. But there is no such product. Lily cooked soup several times. It is delicious, but it's still not the same. Simple products such as we have not. Smetana there - adds her husband.



Living Lilia and Sergey on the ocean. Terrace exit to the beach. It is a pleasure worth 18 thousand dollars a year.
 - A month ago, during a storm wave washed fence. Who built a new, - Sergey speaks about costs of romance. - Well, so are all behind fences, barbed wire all over. Because the local population loves something to steal.
Ukrainian accustomed couples accounted for and to local traditions. Previously the natives on the beach under their windows arranged a public toilet - as long as it did not personally banned the country's president.
 - Yes it is direct here. This is how you come out, and they all sit here crowd. Rejoice. Esthete - he laughs Sergei. - I had a partner, so he gained their stones and slush. But it is useless. They sat close under the fence.
Ocean, fruits, seafood - it would seem that still need. But Chernyshevy another dream.
 - People come here to make money and go for a month or two to rest either in his country or in Europe or in America - says Lilia.
Dream Ukrainian couples - to earn money and return home.

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