Candidate for the post of President of Ukraine, leader of the Party of Regions Victor Yanukovych promises to sign the Decree on restoration of house-museum of Russian writer Anton Chehov – ‘White country cottage” in Yalta in case if he wins  the presidential election. According to an UNIAN correspondent, V. Yanukovych said at “Crimea” state television radio company that he remembers about anniversary of Anton Chehov, having called him “A Ukrainian, Russian writer” and then he named him a poet.

*** 29 January is Anton Chehov’s 150th  anniversary.