Yanukovych to visit Russia early March
Ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President-elect Victor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2004 picture.

Yanukovych to visit Russia early March

Feb 20, 2010 at 18:30 | Reuters
MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Viktor Yanukovich will visit Moscow as Ukraine's new president during the first 10 days of March, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a telephone conversation with President-elect Yanukovich and congratulated him on his "complete and final, legitimate and internationally recognised victory in Ukraine's presidential election", the Kremlin said in a statement. "Medvedev and Yanukovich ... agreed to conduct in the near future, during the first 10 days of March, the visit of Ukraine's president to Russia." (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; editing by Tim Pearce)

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