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Moscow - Viktor Yanukovych has not been dismissed legally, so he remains legally the elected president of Ukraine, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. "Yanukovych has not been dismissed legally, so this means, he remains a legally elected president stripped of power by force," Medvedev said in a statement posted on his Facebook account.

 Representatives of “Maidan, sitting in the government and [Verkhovna] Rada, political functionaries in Kyiv and our western partners” should realize this, the prime minister said.