Tougher bank requirements in Europe to promote intl financial centre in RF.

TORONTO, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- If Europe toughens bank requirements
an international financial centre in Russia will be formed in a faster
pace, Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Saturday.
"I believe we will be able to attract new financial institutions to
Russia and have the existing ones expand their activities. We will seek it
regardless of Europe's toughening requirements," he told Russian
journalists at a briefing in Toronto.
"If Europe's measures are too tough I think it will help us to realize
our plans in a faster pace," he noted.
"However this is not a prerequisite for reaching our plans (to form an
international financial centre in Moscow)," he added.

.Moldovan party leaders to discuss Ghimpu's Soviet Occupation Day
decree.

CHISINAU, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Leaders of Moldova's ruling
coalition, the Alliance for European Integration, will gather on Saturday
for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the decree instituting "Soviet
Occupation Day" on June 28, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and
Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat said.
The decree was signed on Thursday by Moldova's acting president Mihai
Ghimpu without consulting the coalition leaders.
The meeting will be held behind closed doors, a source in the Alliance
told Itar-Tass.
On Friday, Ghimpu said he would not revoke his decree despite severe
criticism from all Moldova's major parties. He also said he planned to
call an ad-hoc meeting of the Moldovan parliament on Monday to adopt laws
banning communist and Soviet symbols.
Marian Lupu, the leader of the Democratic party, which is a member of
the coalition, and former parliament speaker urged Ghimpu to annul his
decree and said his party would not take part in actions specified in the
decree. "I strongly recommend Ghimpu to revise and revoke this decree,
which reflect the position of the Ghimpu-led Liberal party but in no way
corresponds to that of the Alliance. The same opinion is shared by leaders
of other coalition parties," Lupu said.
The decree was severely criticized by the Party of Communists, which
urged lawmakers to vote Ghimau's resignation on Monday.
Ghimpu, notorious for his pro-Romanian views, was made Moldova's
acting president in September 2009 as a compromise figure after the ruling
coalition of the Liberal, Liberal Democratic, and Democratic parties and
the Our Moldova alliance failed to appoint another candidate. According to
public polls, Ghimpu's rating is not more that two percent and observers
believe his radical steps are aimed to remain in power and to avoid early
parliamentary elections.

.Day of silence in Kyrgyzstan on eve of national referendum.

BISHKEK, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- The so-called "day of silence" begins
in Kyrgyzstan at 08:00 a.m. local time (06:00 a.m. Moscow time) on
Saturday on the eve of a national constitutional reform referendum
scheduled for June 27.
"The current law prohibits election campaigning a day ahead of the
voting date," the Kyrgyz central election commission told Itar-Tass,
adding that any violations will be punished.
On June 27, Kyrgyzstan's five million population will vote three
issues - abolishing of the Constitutional Court, vesting head of the
interim government Roza Otunbayeva with powers of the country's interim
president till December 31, 2011, and amendments to the national
constitution. If the referendum is a success, Kyrgyzstan, currently
lacking elected parliament, president and prime minister, will be the
first country in the Central Asia region to have a parliamentary form of
government.
"Stabilization in the country and further economic development are
possible only if referendum yields positive results," said Almazbek
Atambayev, the first deputy prime minister in the interim government. "As
soon as Kyrgyzstan gets legitimate authorities, there will be no sense in
further provocations and riots."
In his words, a referendum is needed "to restore peace and stability"
in the republic so that it could "proceed along the path of building a
free" state.
According to official reports, the situation in the republic's
southern Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, where interethnic clashes claimed 264
human lives, has almost returned to the normal. Public transport is
functioning in a regular mode, shops are open, gas and electricity
supplies are being resumed. Police are working to seize firearms and
ammunition and to detain organizers of unrest.
There are about 2.7 million eligible voters in the republic. The
government decreed to allow those who lost their identification documents
to take part in the voting on condition that their identity is confirmed
by at least two members of the local election commission. According to
deputy prime minister in charge of the constitutional reform Omurbek
Tekebayev, it will pose no threat of falsification, since the voters'
thumbs will be marked with a special chemical substance.
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