BISHKEK/OSH (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan has voted to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy, results showed on Monday, but Russia warned this could allow extremists to seize power following a wave of ethnic violence.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose country shares U.S. fears about Islamist militancy in Central Asia, said the political system resulting from Sunday's Kyrgyz referendum could eventually bring the collapse of the country.

At least 294 people, and possibly hundreds more, were killed this month in violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic which hosts U.S. and Russian military air bases and shares a border with China.

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