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Ukrainian and Russian political scientists have said that Ukraine's President Victor Yanukovych will carry out a multi-vector foreign policy.

Director General of Kyiv Gorshenin Institute Kost Bondarenko said during a video link meeting in Kyiv on Thursday that "there is no other option for Ukraine except for a multi-vector policy, because of its duality."

"[President] Viktor Yanukovych will be forced to balance, maneuver among various factors, including Russian and European ones.

According to Bondarenko, in the sphere of economic cooperation, Yanukovych "will accentuate cooperation with the Russian Federation."

Director of Moscow State University’s information and analytical center on post-Soviet research Aleksey Vlasov (Russia), in turn, noted: "[President] Viktor Yanukovych should find consensus within Ukraine, creating a general agenda for the east and the west, as well as balance between the main players in international policy, in fact, returning to the notorious multi-vector policy, about which there was so much discussion at the time of presidency of Leonid Kuchma."

At the same time, Vlasov said that with the election of Yanukovych as president of Ukraine "the factor of the negative attitude of the Russian political elite towards those with whom they will hold complicated negotiations will disappear."