I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.
My friend Leonid Shvets is a long-time journalist, commentator, and editor. He was born in Belarus and came to Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, to go to school, then moved to Kiev for work.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Russian history began in Kiev, not in Moscow.
Kiev is the largest city and capital of Ukraine.
I tell you very openly: it's much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
I spent eight years in Ukraine, and I played against Kiev many times.
