Beyond the borders of Europe - in other words, the EU, likes Ukraine. It is as large country, as big as France, Spain and Germany put together, with major differences between the east, sovietised, mainly Russian speaking and centre of heavy industry and the west, which is rural with lovely rolling landscapes and fascinating old towns. Here you find gems of architecture: Baroque cathedrals, monasteries and palaces, ancient synagogues and gravestones which bear witness of peoples lost for ever: Polish and Jewish, who once called this lovely land their home.