* The Russian federal agency for press and mass communications will host a meeting of printed media. It will focus on the agency's report "The Russian market of periodicals in 2005" (12.00).
* The Federation Council (parliament's upper house) commission for cooperation with the Russian Audit Chamber will consider a report on the chamber's work in 2004 (11.00).
* A session of the Russian State Duma will be held. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Federal Security Service director Nikolai Patrushev will report to the lower house on the measures to provide Russia's security in the conditions of globalization and on integration prospects on the post-Soviet space (16.00). The parliamentarians will also consider the federal law on the amendments to the Russian law On Mass Media which was declined by the Federation Council (the version of the conciliatory commission).
* The Interfax agency will host the following press conferences:
- with head of the Russian federal agency for water resources Rustem Khamitov on the floods in Dagestan and Chechnya (10.30);
- with chairman of the State Duma international affairs committee Konstantin Kosachev on the results of the Russia-EU summit and the forthcoming summit of the Council of Europe (12.00);
- with leader of the Rodina (Homeland) party and faction Dmitry Rogozin on the topic "The Rodina economic program - new political solutions" (14.00).
* The International Trade Center will host a session of the Mercury Club on the topic "Hopes and concerns of Russian businessmen on the verge of Russia's accession to the WTO." The session will be overseen by President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Mercury Club CEO Yevgeny Primakov (17.00).
* The National Currency Association and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange will hold a roundtable on the topic "Euro - ruble: a new stage of development of the Russian currency market." Vice President of the Bank of Russia Konstantin Korishchenko, MICEX general director Alexander Potyomkin and representatives of major Russian banks will deliver reports on this issue (11.00).
* The 5th Moscow international tourism fair MITF-Tourism and Recreation will open in Gostiny Dvor (11.00). Chairman of the Moscow tourism committee Grigory Antyufeyev will give a press conference (15.00).
* Moscow will host a press conference on the launch of the Time To Live major TV anti-AIDS project which will be held in 11 Russian cities in May-December 2005 (11.00).
ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA
* A Georgian-Abkhaz meeting will take place. It is organized by the UN Secretary General's special representative in Georgia Haidi Tagliavini.
KIEV
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will give a live two-hour press conference. Ukrainian people will ask questions to their leader. The press conference will be broadcasted by three Ukrainian TV channels (22.00 Moscow time).
BELGRADE
* Official representatives of Belgrade and Pristina will hold the first meeting on the return of refugees and temporarily displaced persons to the southern Serbian province. Representatives of the UN high commissioner for refugees will attend the meeting.
LONDON
* Documents on further EBRD assistance to the neutralization of consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe will be signed at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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