KIEV, March 22 – Ukraine's most famous boxer, a faction leader of the Kiev City Council, Vitaliy Klychko, has sent an open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov asking them to dismiss Leonid Chernovetsky as Kiev mayor and call a fresh mayor election and elections to Kiev City Council.

"The situation in the Ukrainian capital is catastrophic. Rumors of economic chaos, large-scale corruption and blatant unlawful actions by the city's leaders have circulated for a long time not only in Kiev, but also outside it," reads a letter posted on the official Web site of the Bloc of Klychko.