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POLAND'S ACTING PRESIDENT RIDING WAVE OF POPULARITY
18:34 MSK

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.



PUTIN LAUNCHES OIL EXTRACTION IN RUSSIAN CASPIAN
17:35 MSK

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.



NEW KYRGYZ CONSTITUTION TO CREATE NEW STATE - INTERIM KYRGYZ DEPUTY PM
15:34 MSK

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.

The interim Kyrgyz government published a draft constitution on its site on Monday, which cuts the powers of the president and changes the Kyrgyz presidential regime into a parliamentary one.

"Practically, we create a new republic based on a multiparty democracy," Omurbel Tekebayev said. "The new system of state power guarantees citizens political freedom, economic freedom and freedom of the press."

Tekebayev hopes that a new democratic Kyrgyzstan will lean on these three pillars. He added that the draft of the new constitution might be changed during the next two weeks and a constitutional council will begin its work on its legal base.

The draft proposes a presidential term of five years and forbids any one president from serving more than two consecutive terms. The president will also be denied the power to veto.

The Kyrgyz parliament will have 120 deputies (or 105 according to a second version of the draft), elected every five years, with a vote threshold of 5%. No one political party can have more than 65 (or 60) seats in parliament.

The draft constitution names Kyrgyz as the country's national language and Russian as an official language.

The constitution draft gives people the right to rally peacefully and without arms, as long as the government is given prior warning.

Uprisings broke out in Kyrgyzstan on April 6, spreading across the country and lasting several days. Former President Kurmankbek Bakiyev was deposed and forced to flee the capital and later the country. An interim government was formed under Roza Otumbayeva.

RIA Novosti



UKRAINE'S PREMIER ACCUSES TYMOSHENKO OF COSTING STATE $12.5 BLN
14:48 MSK

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 TO REVEAL KATYN DOCUMENTS TO END SPECULATIONS
13:42 MSK

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.



NINE OFFICIALS CHARGED OVER KYRGYZ RIOT DEATHS
12:00 MSK

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.



RUSSIAN SENATORS RATIFY NAVY BASE DEAL WITH UKRAINE
10:41 MSK

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.



BELARUS TO BE GIVEN PARTNER STATUS ON SCO DIALOGUE
10:35 MSK

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.



PACE TO DISCUSS RUSSIA-GEORGIA RELATIONS, HOLODOMOR
10:33 MSK

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




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