The Russian Information Agency Novosti begins Hotline coverage for Friday, August 6, 2004.
MOSCOW
* Leonid Tyagachev, Russian Olympic Committee president, addresses a news conference on national team readiness for Olympics 2004.
* A news conference is convened on, "Was There a Banking Crisis? Can It Repeat?"
* A Builders' Day gala gathering includes an excursion to the exposition, Construction in the Moscow Environs 2004. Best construction experts and workers will receive awards during the gala.
UFA, BASHKORTOSTAN
* The autonomy hosts national reservist training to gather people from every part of Russia under the command of Yuri Baluyevsky, Chief of General Staff. Sergei Ivanov, federal Defence Minister, is expected to appear.
KALININGRAD
* An enlarged-attendance routine conference will discuss key aspects of all-round transport development in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's Baltic exclave. Igor Levitin, federal Transport Minister, will have the conference chair.
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
* The Frontier 2004, large-scale tactical exercise of rapid deployment forces on the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, underway in Kyrgyzstan, has its closing day. The day will gather VIP observers-President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan; Defence Ministers of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; Nikolai Bordyuzha, Collective Security Treaty Organisation Secretary General; and spokesmen of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretariate, the CIS Secretariate, and China's Defence Ministry.
KIEV
* This is the last day for Ukrainian presidential nominations. The presidential election is appointed for October 31.
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