Poland's acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski, has one of the highest ratings of any Polish politician in recent years, the Polish News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing pollster CBOS.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an oil platform on the Russian part of the Caspian Sea on Wednesday to launch industrial oil production by Russia's largest independent oil producer, LUKoil.

A new constitution in Kyrgyzstan will turn the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic into a new state, an interim deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday accused his predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and her government of causing 100 billion hryvnas ($12.5 billion) in state losses.

Russia's federal archive agency will provide access to digital copies of documents on the Katyn massacre to end speculations about their authenticity, the agency's chief said on Wednesday.

The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office charged nine officials in connection with the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Bishkek in early April, which left dozens of people dead, the 24.kg news agency said on Wednesday.

The upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, ratified on Wednesday a deal with Ukraine to extend the lease on a Russian naval base.

The memorandum on granting Belarus the status of a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be signed on Wednesday in the capital Minsk, a Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss Russian-Georgian relations and Holodomor at its spring session.

PACE will discuss a report on the consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war for the fifth time since October 2008, when PACE asked Russia to reverse its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia but did not support radical proposals to deprive Russia of the right to vote.

Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian republic, Abkhazia, following the five-day war in August 2008, which started when Georgia attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control.

In October 2009, when PACE also discussed the events in South Ossetia, it again did not support the proposal to deprive Russia of the voting right, but the Georgian delegation said it would continue raising the issue.

The PACE spring session that started Monday and is to end Friday will also discuss a report commemorating the victims of the Soviet 1932-1933 famine, known as Holodomor, that includes an amendment recognizing it as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.

President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday it is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine that killed millions across the Soviet Union a genocide of the Ukrainian people.

More than 3 million people perished in Ukraine due to the famine, and Ukrainian nationalists say Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, should bear responsibility.

Former president Viktor Yushchenko, who was known for his anti-Russian policies, led Ukraine's efforts to secure international recognition of the famine as an act of genocide.

RIA Novosti