Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. believes that Russia's role in creating the modern economy of Ukraine underestimated, and its attempts to establish cooperation with the Republic unfairly treated as expansion.
" Any step from Russia will can be interpreted only in a negative way - " expansion ", " dependence " that certain're doing now. Ignoring the fact that the story is about jobs, salaries of the Ukrainian people, the taxes in the Ukrainian budget. But the truth is that the economy of Independent Ukraine was created largely because of the support of Russia, " Medvedev wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
He said that the amount of Russian investments, concessional loans and supplies on favorable terms " far exceeded one hundred billion dollars ". According to him, solely due to low gas prices Ukraine has saved more than 82, 7 billion of such support has not received any Republic of the former Soviet Union.
" We not only helped the Ukrainian economy, but we can say, in fact contained it. It is unlikely any other country, except Russia, Kiev could get medals for decades. But, unfortunately, this economic reality is not adequately perceived by the Ukrainian leadership, " wrote the Russian Prime Minister.
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