Iryna Smihotur,
on maternity leave

“I’m satisfied with the results of parliamentary elections. And now I want peace most of all. We can survive everything else. It’s impossible to live in fear every day.”

Oleksandr Gavrysh,director of investment and development center

“We have no way other than doing reforms and I hope that the agreeable majority in parliament understand this, otherwise we don’t have a nation. I hope that after some reforms Ukraine will advance a lot, and soon become a member of the European Union as President Petro Poroshenko declares. Europe is defective without Ukraine.”

Oleksandr Pidubny,
editor

“First of all, the government should do judicial and administrative reforms. Since independence, they’ve been systematically stealing budget money. We have to break the system. It’s difficult to make a prognosis but there is a lot of work to do.”

Yaryna Cymbal,
literary critic of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

“I hope that the quality of social life improves. In general, I’m satisfied with the parliamentary elections results.”