On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Kyiv, five couples are fervently waiting to get married in front of one of the city register offices. In Ukraine, would-be spouses have been taking advantage of a simplification in the red tape around marriage that allows them to wed on the spot, rather than having to register first and come back after a long wait.

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