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Bridget Kendall: The Kremlin’s Yanukovych options
The news that Viktor Yanukovych has resurfaced in Russia seems very significant.
Not only has he apparently been given sanctuary by the Russian authorities, but they have allowed a statement on his behalf to be read out on Russian TV and distributed by all Russia's main news agencies, in which he officially declares himself still president of Ukraine and denounces the new government in Kiev as "extremist" and the parliament as illegitimate.