Moldovan parliament approved the appointment of the new head of government, a 38-year-old Cyril Gaburici, formerly head of the Azerbaijani telecom holding Azercell. Gaburici graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Slavic University. In 2008-2012 he was the CEO of Moldcell, and then headed the Azerbaijani cellular company Azercell (which as Moldcell, is the part of the group TeliaSonera Eurasia.) His candidacy was approved after a four-hour interrogation. The main headache of the new prime minister will be a severe economic crisis in Moldova. The day prior to the approval of the government of the Moldovan currency exchange rate fell from 20.4 leis per a $1 to 24. After that, prices rose, and the people rushed to the stores. Although yesterday rate stabilized, experts are predicting a further fall in the national currency.
The program of the new prime minister - the fight against corruption and poverty, the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. Against the background of European integration and developing a strategic partnership with Romania, Ukraine and the United States, and relations with Russia are marked as requiring a "normalization". There is a paragraph, "continued cooperation with NATO in order to strengthen the status of neutrality. As for the work of Gaburici in Azercell, then former colleagues remember him as an extremely economical and unsociable man. -02D-
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