NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 16 /TASS/. Kremlin’s Administration Chief Sergei Ivanov has called Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko a "Bolshevik" for calling Russia’s loan to Ukraine a bribe.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has just commented Poroshenko’s words about the bribe; Dmitry Medvedev gave a good reply yesterday. The only thing I can add to all this is that Pyotr Poroshenko turned out to be a Bolshevik," Ivanov told journalist on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko said on Monday that Russia’s $3-billion-dollar loan to his country was a "bribe" sealed by ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.
According to Poroshenko, the whole situation around the money which Russia loaned to Ukraine in 2013 was dubious. He assumed the loan was a bribe that followed immediately after President Viktor Yanukovich had refused to sign as association agreement with the European Union in Vilnius.
"That was a bribe," Poroshenko said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg Television in his office in Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests the money which Ukraine is receiving from the West be called a "bribe" if Kiev has used this term to describe Russia’s loan to Ukraine.
"If anybody thinks that /the Russian loan/ is a bribe which President Yanukovich received for not signing the association agreement with the European Union, the same term can be applied to all the means provided by other creditors and investors with an aim to make this agreement signed. Lots of that money had come from the US funds," Putin told a news conference after talks with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday.
Putin’s remark came in response to President Poroshenko’s assumption that a $3-billion-dollar loan which Russia gave to Ukraine was a "bribe" for Yanukovich’s refusal to sign the association agreement with the European Union.
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