Medvedev said journalists asked Chernomyrdin "when Ukraine will join the EU."
“He immediately answered, without thinking at all: “After Turkey.”
And, they say, when is Turkey?
- And Turkey never (Chernomyrdin answered. -
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) ”, - RIA Novosti quotes Medvedev.
According to him, this is still relevant today.
Medvedev also said that granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of a candidate for joining the European Union is just an operetta action.