Georgia's establishment of "Soviet Occupation Day" followed the example of Moldova. Moldova's president Mihai Ghimpu instituted in 2010, Soviet Occupation Day to remember the Soviet occupation on 28 June 1940, but the Constitutional Court cancelled his decree on 12 July 2010. In Latvia the "Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day" was declared an official remembrance day on 18 May 2000; it is observed on 17 June.