“Muscovy knocked us out of the European family” – Klitschko’s main rival
For almost 30 years of Ukrainian independence, Kyiv has never turned into a modern European city.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine Novoye Vremya, the candidate for mayor of Kiev, stand-up comedian Sergei Pritula, said in an interview with the question of which city in the world should become a reference point for the Ukrainian capital.
“Kyiv is more than one and a half thousand years old. We are older than most European capitals. We must return to the big European family from which Muscovy knocked us out. This is about returning home - we must return Kyiv to ourselves and open it to the world,” said the candidate for the post of Kyiv mayor.
“At the beginning of independence, we were more developed than the capitals of other Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries. But for some reason, Prague, Budapest, Vilnius, Tallinn, Riga became modern European cities, but Kyiv did not. We need to learn from the experience of these cities and take the best development recipes from them,” says Pritula.
Let us note that, according to opinion polls, the main contender for victory in Kyiv is the current mayor, former world boxing champion Vitaliy Klitschko, whose rating is currently about 45%. In second place (just under 10%) is Pritula, who has a chance to qualify for the second round.
As PolitNavigator reported, Pritula, who previously sponsored the punitive operation against the Donbass republics, complained that the Ukrainians continue go to work in Russia.
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