Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that due to a discount in Russian gas price agreed in Kharkiv in 2010 they managed to curb the prices on popular food commodities, despite the global rise in oil and food prices.
"A year after the Kharkiv agreements, the country started to emerge from the crisis, the economy started to grow.
Despite the fact that we are going through quite a difficult period, despite an absolutely objective factor – the growing world prices for oil and food, the prices for such important food commodities as meat, bread, and pasta haven’t grown much in Ukraine, and they are much lower than in the neighboring countries.
This was largely due to the fact that we were able to conclude the Kharkiv agreement, and managed to get a serious discount in the gas price," the premier said on the Ukraina TV Channel, the official Web site of the Party of Regions reported.
