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Seliger, Tver region - Viktor Yanukovych is a former Ukrainian president and Moscow has never pushed him to the presidential position, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Seliger 2014 youth forum.

“As to former President Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych, we did not push and did not advance him anywhere,” Putin said when commenting on the opinion that Yanukovych was Moscow’s protege.