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Yanukovych called Chekhov's "great Ukrainian poet"

  Party of Regions leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych in the air space bridge "Simferopol-regions" called the writer Anton Chekhov Ukrainian poet.

Asked yaltintsev that will be a house-museum of Chekhov, Yanukovych said that is well aware that in Yalta celebrate "150 Years of Chekhov's" and will do everything to preserve the memory of "the great Ukrainian poet.

After the first time, Yanukovych said, "Ukrainian", looked as if he gave the signal and he added: "Ukrainian, Russian, and indeed the poet of world significance".

The leader of the PR has promised that after his victory sign a decree on the celebration of the anniversary of Chekhov, "because Chekhov is a great and wonderful poet".
This is not the first "literary" embarrassment Yanukovych. Speaking to the Odessa conference of the Party of Regions, he confused the name of the German labor movement leader August Bebel with the name of the writer Isaac Babel's Odessa.

Thus, in 2006 at a rally in Odessa, he called the native of the city known poetess Anna Akhmatova Akhmetov.

Also, the leader of the PR mistook the name of the Soviet poet Paul Merciless, calling him Paul immortal.



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