The Russian Information Agency Novosti begins Hotline coverage for Wednesday, July 14, 2004.
ROME
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a routine visit to Italy. He will meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Pier Ferdinando Casini, and his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini. The visit will last until July 15.
MOSCOW
* Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with Armenian Prime Minister Andronik Margaryan.
* The joint control commission for the Georgian-Ossetian settlement will hold a session involving secretaries of the Russian and Georgian security councils.
* Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin will visit the Kolomensky engineering plant and participate in the presentation of the new freight locomotive 2TE70 designed at the plant.
* Moscow will host the opening ceremony of the International Accounting Academy autonomous non-commercial organization.
* The Russian Information Agency Novosti will host a press conference on the condition and prospects of Russian metallurgy with deputy head of the industry department of the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry Andrei Deineko.
* Russian Space Troops commander Vladimir Popovkin will give a press conference entitled "The results of the Space Troops activities in the first six months of 2004. The conditions and development prospects of the Space Troops."
* U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Lash will give a press conference on his visit to Russia, investments in this country, copyright protection and Russian-U.S. energy cooperation.
* Hearings of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev's case will continue in the Meshchansky Court.
* Moscow will host a briefing on the results of the extended session of the executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee. The staff of the Russian sports delegation at the Olympic Games in Athens will be confirmed at the meeting.
* Gostiny Dvor will host the Cibus food exposition organized by the Italian Foreign Trade Institute, the Italian Food Industry Federation and Fiere di Parma exhibition center (July 14-17).
ULYANOVSK
* The international scientific-practical conference "Modern information and telecommunications technologies in education and their role in the humanization of Russia's penitentiary system" will open in Ulyanovsk. Among other issues, the conferees will discuss the problem of higher education in prisons.
UCHALY (BASHKORTOSTAN)
The 8th congress of the Ural mining industrialists will open in Uchaly.
BAKU
Co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group for Nagorny Karabakh Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (U.S.) and Henry Jackolin will arrive in Azerbaijan on a two-day visit to hold consultations on the Nagorny Karabakh settlement.
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