Kiev has lost "Moscow".
Kiev has lost "Moscow".
From windows of the Moscow mayoralty on New Arbate opens
Perfect kind on hotel "Ukraine". Present, that this
Prestigious vysotka, become by an indispensable dominant of the capital
Landscape, suddenly will replace the name, with which it so srodnilas
Almost for half a century? But, it appears, such inexplicable
Precedents happen. And not somewhere, and in capital friendly
Ukraine - "mothers of cities of Russian" nice Kiev. Here still
It was recently possible to admire a Kreschatik from hotel windows
"Moscow". But in a high impulse of preparation for decade
nezalezhnosti Ukraine which was marked on August, 24th, Kiev
The authorities have deprived hotel of its primordial name.
Probably, they considered, that thereby get rid from
The hated past, imperial influence also do a step in
Desired Europe. A pier that also to spirit moskalej was not on
Kreschatik! But this ostentatious independent spirit - only
Underside of ineradicable provincialism. Campaign on
To giving to Kiev of shape of the European capital have begun obviously not with
That. With all force aspiring to Europe, the Kiev authorities in the
The project of reconstruction of the centre actually imitated more
All to the same Moscow and even wished to create something like ours
"Ohotnij rjad". But, probably, forces and means for it have not sufficed.
And here the name to change - on it of the big expenses it is not required,
Though too money - a new signboard to reserve, print
Forms... But renamings the European lustre you will not guide. And
To replace a monument to Lenin with a column with the woman symbolising
Independence is, of course, easier, than really to use
Fruits of this independence for the public good, instead of in interests
Politicians and local oligarchs.
And how is to people in Ukraine, speaks at least the such
The fact. Today among directing to Moscow on earnings
Foreign workers-illegal immigrants, which in our capital on
To various estimations more than hundred thousand, are a lot of Ukrainians. They
Trade in the markets, work on transport, in building, in
To consumer services sphere. And now try to find out in
Kiev the Muscovites who have arrived on earnings! It was possible to find them
Unless during presidential pre-election campaign. But
To the Moscow PR managers paid at all in grivnas, as, however,
And to the TV presenter with TVTS to Dmitry Kiselyov, perhaps, to the only thing
To the Muscovite, which now in Kiev on earnings.
Moscow - a city multinational and opened. In ours
To capital, only on official data, live about 300 thousand
Ukrainians. There is a society "Ukrainians of Moscow", zemljachestva,
Connected with the Ukrainian regions, the Ukrainian language operates
The cultural centre, is created the Ukrainian library. Ukraine
It is reflected and in toponymics of Moscow, in names of its streets and
The areas, metro stations, hotels and cinemas. At us to anybody
And in a head will not come to rename underground "Kiev" in
"Kirov", and the Kiev station - in Kaluga. Muscovites like
The Ukrainian and Simferopol parkways, the Crimean quay and
Street Dovzhenko. Thousand inhabitants of our city live on
The Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy streets. And now,
When relations of our states when become stronger have become warmer
Communications of Moscow with Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk and others
The Ukrainian regions, we face with obviously unfriendly
Gesture of the Kiev authorities concerning Moscow, and all
Muscovites. Consoles, that proportional to the name "Moscow"
Have counted only one - "Ukraine". So now also call
Hotel on a Kreschatik.
We would not began to put forward the version of the motives which have induced
City administration of Kiev to rename hotel
"Moscow" if Ukrainian ofitsialnyvlitsa have agreed
To comment on this fact. We addressed and in embassy
Ukraine in Moscow, to the mayor of Kiev Alexander Omelchenko, to
To the chief of department of international contacts, to the head
The mayoralty press-services, but an explanation have not received. Ukrainian
Officials even have pretended, that about renaming by it of nothing
It is known. And only the secretary of one of Kiev heads,
At which, probably, it was still saved piitet before calls from
Moscow, has opened terrible secret and has told us, that "Moscow"
Have renamed into "Ukraine" by day of independence. To us remains
To hope, that behind this unfriendly in relation to ours
To capital not policy, but only excessive diligence costs gesture
Separate officials.
And that after all and to us is what to rename. But the answer will be
The asymmetric. It is known, now the government of Moscow
Considers possibility of purchase of not completed Ukrainian language
Cruiser "Ukraine" for strengthening Russian Black Sea
Fleet. On its completion it is necessary 28 million dollars. At the authorities
Ukraine which owe to the Nikolaev ship-building factory
65 million griven, are not present such money. It is known also, that in
Acquisition case the Moscow government of a cruiser
"Ukraine" it will be renamed in "Sankt-. Petersburg".
Mikola nezavibatko.
//* an information Source: Tver, 13,21.09.01
//* Reg. Nom. - 1110900053.15-------------------------------------------
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