Viktor Yanukovych says he is still the legitimate leader of Ukraine and will speak publicly in Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday
A "Wanted" poster showing a portrait of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych is stuck on a car window in central Kiev Photo: AFP
By Kevin O'Flynn, Moscow
7:55PM GMT 27 Feb 2014
Ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych has called on Russia to give him protection saying that he is still the "legitimate head of the Ukrainian state."
Russian television reported yesterday that Yanukovych, who fled Kiev last week after bloody clashes between protesters and police forces, is now in Russia and the three main news agencies said he would be holding a press conference in the country today.
Yanukovych's plea for protection came after what he claimed were "threats of reprisals against me and my followers."
The acting Ukrainian government has accused the ousted President of mass murder after close to 100 people were killed in the protests and requested an international warrant for his arrest.
Yesterday Russian television quoted him as backing protesters in Russian-speaking regions who have come out against the Maidan demonstrations.
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"It is becoming clear that the people in southeastern Ukraine and in Crimea do not accept the power vacuum and complete lawlessness in the country, when the heads of ministries are appointed by the mob," he said. "On the streets of many cities of our country there is an orgy of extremism."
The state-run RIA and Itar-Tass as well as privately owned Interfax news agencies have reported that he plans to hold a news conference in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don at 5pm citing people close to Yanukovich.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Yanukovych has not appeared in public since he fled Kiev. After leaving the capital the deposed leader gave a television interview in Kharkiv, before going to Donetsk and then reportedly heading to Crimea.
Russian daily RBK reported that he flew in to Moscow on Tuesday and was seen at the hotel Ukraina, a vast Stalin-era skyscraper, citing a top state official and major businessman.
The hotel Ukraina, now called the Radisson Royal, was built as a Soviet palace in the 1950s and has a marble-lined, chandelier filled interior. It was known as a gangster hang out in the 1990s but now caters to Russia's super rich with a Rolls-Royce salon on its first floor, which has 5 cars on show.
Yanukovych, whose private zoo and vast collection of classic cars, was revealed to the world after his presidential residence was seized by demonstrators, had not popped in to look for a replacement car, said a sales official.
"We've heard the rumours but I haven't seen him," said Sergei, a security guard manning the door to the smoke-filled hotel lobby, filled with men wearing very chunky, expensive watches.
RBK also reported that another runaway Ukrainian official, former general prosecutor Victor Pshonka had hired a suite on the 11th floor last week for £6600 pounds.
One Twitter parody called VictorinEnglish had already picked up on the rumours by tweeting "The Moscow Radisson is a dump. Damn hotel doesn't even have a zoo."
RBK reported that Yanukovych had since moved on to a top sanatorium, which belongs to the presidential administration, located in the richest area in Moscow.
The sanatorium, once a favourite of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, is in Barvikha in the west of Moscow. Lacking his personal chef, Yanukovych has been reduced to ordering food from the nearest fancy restaurant, Tsarskaya Okhota, run by restaurateur Arkady Novikov, it reported.
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