Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has asked Head of Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov to tell Kyiv residents why Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky is not at work.
"Oleksandr Pavlovych [Popov], is he [Chernovetsky] on vacation? And who is suffering due to his absence? Do Kyivans want him to come back? They dream of it. Be sure to find the mayor and tell him that all Kyivans miss him, want to see him very much and are asking him to get to work," he told First Vice-Premier Andriy Kliuyev and the head of Kyiv City State Administration.
As reported, on Wednesday Popov refused to say where Chernovetsky was.
"As for the mayor: I would ask you to address this question to the mayor himself, I think this would be the right thing to do," he told reporters. When asked whether he had seen Chernovetsky recently, Popov said: "We’re in touch with him."
