Ukraine's Yanukovich to visit Russia early March

MOSCOW | Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:24am EST

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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