* Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will meet with Russian public figures on the last day of his routine visit to Moscow.
* The Russian Interior Ministry will host a briefing on the sale and use of non-lethal self-defense weapons.
* The Russian Transportation Ministry will host a press conference on the results of the 35th session of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which closed in Montreal on October 8.
* The Russian Federation Council will hold a plenary session. The upper house will cease or confirm the authorities of some of its members and consider a number of laws passed by the State Duma.
* The Russian State Duma will hold a session to consider amendments to the law On the System of Prevention of Homelessness and Juvenile Delinquency and to the Russian Tax Code (on customs duties).
Head of the federal agency for physical culture, sports and tourism Vyacheslav Fetisov will deliver a report on state policy in the sphere of sports development, preparations of Russian athletes for international competitions and principles of the Olympic team formation.
* The State Duma will host:
- a press conference with MP Konstantin Zatulin on the developments in Abkhazia;
- the opening of an exhibition of prominent German photographer Stefan Moses held as part of the Year of German Culture in Russia.
* UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy will give a press conference and present an international report on economic growth and children's poverty in Central and Eastern Europe (CIS and Baltic states).
* President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov will preside at a Russian-Finnish business conference in the International Trade Center. The Finnish delegation is headed by chairman of the board of directors of Finland's Central Chamber of Commerce, director general of the Finnish Association of Cooperative Banks, Minister Antti Tanskanen.
* Moscow will host a roundtable on the goals and prospects of the budget policy in 2005-2007. Those participating will be Andrei Illarionov, Arkady Dvorkovich (the presidential staff), Yevsei Gurvich (the Economic Expert Group), Vladimir Mau (the People's Economy Academy) and representatives of the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry, Finance Ministry and the International Monetary Fund.
* The Mariott Aurora Hotel will host the conference entitled "Tax Strategy in Modern Conditions: the Challenge of Time and New Possibilities" organized by the International Tax Association. Thematic sessions will take place.
* The Standard & Poor's International Rating Company and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange will present the research of informational transparency of major Russian companies.
* The Izvestia media center will host the following press conferences:
- on the 60th anniversary of Latvia's liberation from the Nazis and the life and destiny of liberators in democratic Latvia;
- on the second stage of payments to Nazi prisoners and the fund's program dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Victory.
* The Russian Information Agency Novosti will host the following press conferences:
- "The Man and Nature: Coexistence in the Megalopolis" and a presentation of a series of books about Moscow's nature;
- on the results of the all-Russia conference on the introduction of the single state examination in some Russian regions.
* Rector of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Ilya Glazunov will give a press conference on the destiny of Russia and culture.
* The Moscow office of the Russian Writers' Union will host the first stage of the action "Books Do Not Burn" on the collection of books to restore the Russian library in Baghdad.
* President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov will give a press conference on the world championship match between G. Kasparov and R. Kasymdzhanov.
ST. PETERSBURG
* Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar, currently on an official visit to Russia, will go to St. Petersburg. He will attend the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry and meet with local businessmen. About 30 St. Petersburg companies are to participate in the meeting.
KALININGRAD
* Kaliningrad will host the 43rd session of the International Club of Directors comprising heads of about 100 big Russian and CIS companies, representatives of the authorities and scientists. The Club holds its sessions twice a year. This forum will focus on the economic condition of the Kaliningrad region. Its participants will visit a number of local enterprises and hold a roundtable on investment issues.
KIEV
* A roundtable "Russia and Ukraine: prospects of banking cooperation" will be held on the initiative of the Russian Club in Ukraine.
YEREVAN
* The 1st International Armenian Economic Forum held by the World Armenian Congress and the Union of Russia's Armenians will open in Yerevan. Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin, cochairman of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation, will address the opening ceremony.
BAKU
* The 24th session of the committee for legal and political issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization will open in Baku. It will focus on regional stability and security issues.
POIANA BRASOV, ROMANIA
* An informal meeting of NATO defense ministers will open in Romania. They are to consider the fight against international terrorism, assistance to the training of Iraqi national security forces, and the situations in Afghanistan and Kosovo. An informal session of the Russia-NATO council at the level of defense ministers will be held, as well.
VENICE, ITALY
* The 5th symposium of representatives of the Mediterranean and Black Seas naval forces will open in Venice. Representatives of navies of 28 countries, including Russia, will participate in this event held once in two years. They will discuss the development of naval forces cooperation in this strategically, politically and economically important region.
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