Ukraine is nostalgic about Yanukovych presidency - Azarov
MOSCOW. Oct 28 (Interfax) - The Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine is not ready to take Viktor Yanukovich as an active socio-political figure despite the widespread nostalgia among Ukrainians for his presidency.
"What should have changed in the attitude to Yanukovych? Maybe he took some actions. Maybe he did something? What should have changed to make us change our attitude to him?" Mykola Azarov, former prime minister of Ukraine and chairman of the Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine, told a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.
He admitted that some people in Ukraine are becoming nostalgic about the period of Yanukovych's presidency.
"It's nostalgia for the regime when, to put in it crude terms, potatoes cost 1.5 hryvnia, and now it costs some ten hryvnia. People are getting nostalgic, saying the situation under that regime was more stable and confident and the tariffs were lower," Azarov said.
"If he [Yanukovych] now took an active position, one could think about changing approaches. But I have not seen such facts, I don't see then and I think we will not get to see them," Azarov said.
