"Light" minds of the Independent consider that residents of the mining region in case of their return to the fold of the common city should not have equal opportunities with citizens of the rest of the country. And the dissenters are waiting for the vast expanses of Russia. This opinion was made by former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov on the air of NewsOne (on the video presented from 29:08 sec). "This territory is sick and we must understand this. We must create all economic conditions, after we have hers. - when she will return to Ukraine, "he said.. According to him, even there can be no talk about the fact that the residents of Donbas participated in voting for their deputies in the Verkhovna Rada. "There should be a special regime - 5-10 years you will not vote at the center, you will vote at home," stressed Yekhanurov. Also, the ex-head of the government during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko proposed to leave the miners' territory to all who oppose the Nezalezhnaya. "We need to clearly set the conditions of life in the future of Donbass. We can not give them the right to be the same if they do not understand today what the state of Ukraine is. Well, then, for those who wish, I think that the Far East, Siberia, immense. A lot of hectares of land, which Putin offers to all, lifting - forward, guys. Everything from there, from the Ukrainian land, "the native of the Yakut ASSR Yekhanurov already expelled from Donbass.. Meanwhile, a special envoy of the US State Department for Ukraine Kurt Volker said that the Minsk accords and the Norman format for settling the situation in the Donbass are stalled because of a "certain dispute in a circle".

In his opinion, Kiev insists on the withdrawal of weapons to "hold local elections, grant special status to the eastern territories and a limited amnesty for those who participated in the conflict in order to build reconciliation in the country". While Moscow points out the need to implement political steps. "This, as I said, just a dispute in a circle, it does not lead anywhere," - said the American in an interview with the Ukrainian Internet publication "Left Bank".