The absence from work of Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky has no influence on the quality of the work of the city authorities, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
"I’m working in Kyiv with the current head of the administration [Oleksandr Popov]. There are no problems for me and the government… Popov is coping with his work, and Chernovetsky’s absence does not hamper him," he told journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
Azarov told a journalist who asked a question about Chernovetsky that today he would call the mayor and tell him that media representatives "cannot live without him."
Currently, Chernovetsky spends practically no time in Kyiv. According to media reports, he has been an Israeli citizen since 1994.
