VLADIVOSTOK, March 15. /TASS/. Organisers of the coup in Kiev in 2014 planned assassination of Viktor Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
The head of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said he would be offended if he did not top the European Union's black list compiled in connection with Russia's position on the situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine will continue the course towards European integration, the country's President Viktor Yanukovich said on Sunday at a meeting with influential U.S. Republican Senator John McCain and Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs.
Moscow does not doubt the large-scale rallies in Ukraine have been staged long beforehand, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich begins a four-day visit to China Tuesday. Its itinerary includes talks with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.