Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he believes that it is necessary to use harsh measures against the children of high-ranking officials who violate traffic rules.
“There are problems that in Ukraine there are categories of drivers who consider it unnecessary to follow traffic rules. People call them ‘mazhory’… It is necessary that our interior bodies very attentively look at ‘mazhory’ and act strictly if necessary,” he told journalists in Kyiv on Monday after his visit to a driving school.
He noted that the government had cancelled almost all of the certificates allowing certain drivers to break traffic rules.
He said that only three persons in the state – the president, the prime minister and the speaker – were currently entitled to special travel on the roads.
“The rules are inviolable for all other officials,” Azarov said.
