OREANDA-NEWS. January 02, 2014. Thanks to the signed by presidents of Ukraine and Russia agreements, Ukraine's economy will obtain the path of growth and welfare of the citizens in 2014. This was stated by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Facebook.

"Moscow agreement between two presidents - Putin and Yanukovych have allowed our country to get prospects for 2014, and all our people will have confidence that wages and pensions rise and no one lose a job, the economy hit the growth trajectory," Mykola Azarov said.

He said that now there is a criticism, which has not logic, in media about these agreements. 

"Point 1: it is better for Ukraine to buy gas by USD 500 per thousand cubic meters, not by USD 268 due to the opponents’ logic. Strange logic, don’t you see. They say, supposedly, cheaper gas will not create incentives for economic modernization. I’d like to ask whether more expensive gas contributes to the accumulation of resources needed for modernization, or, conversely, diverts resources from modernization? Or even this element of criticism: we should not take the credit in Moscow; we had to take it in the IMF. It is also strange logic. So, take the credit at exactly same interest rate as in the IMF, but without obligation to raise tariffs for the population, in two times, to derail the national currency, to cease state support of the village, close mines –better. Of course, critics do not say so directly this, and this is their cynicism and hypocrisy, but I call things by their names," the Prime Minister said.

He noted that if Ukraine had signed an agreement with the EU, the Moscow agreements would not be signed, "it means that we would have one way: to agree with the IMF’s conditions and close businesses that focused on Russia’s market." 

Mykola Azarov said that over time more and more people will be convinced of the correctness of the decision of the authorities in the situation that we have.