CHANGING THE BELARUSIAN PARLIAMENT’S QUORUM COULD BACKFIRE.

If the Belarusian parliament lowers its quorum requirement, representatives of the communists and the agrarians will occupy almost half of the seats in that body, Segodnya reported June 2. In that event, the paper said, there would be no support for President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s reforms and hence no union with Russia.

International Business Congress Meets in Kishinev.