* The first session of a Russo-Chilean intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation will be held (12.00).
* OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking of Human Beings Helga Konrad, who is currently in Moscow, will give a news conference on the topic, Measures Against Trafficking of Human Beings on OSCE Territory (10.30).
* The Federal Agency for Forestry will present the results of air and space monitoring of illegal tree felling in the Siberian and Northwestern Federal Districts (13.00).
* The Federation Council (the upper chamber of parliament) will host a news conference on the first Hope of Russia children's and young people's festival (13.00).
* The State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) will host a roundtable on the legislative protection of intellectual property in Russia (10.00).
* A two-day conference, Prospects for Affordable Housing in Russia, will open.
* RIA Novosti will host:
- a news conference with head of the Underground Research Center Vadim Mikhail on the condition of underground communications in the center of Moscow (13.00);
- a roundtable on the topic, What is Behind the Series of 'Democratic' Reforms on the Post-Soviet Space? (15.00);
- a video conference with leading Russian and U.S. experts on global economic development and global problems organized by RIA Novosti and the U.S. Heritage foundation and dedicated to the G8 summit in Scotland (18.00);
- a session of the General Council of the Federation of Russia's Independent Trade-Unions on the fifth extraordinary congress of the Federation dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the trade-union movement in Russia and 15th anniversary of the Federation's foundation (10.00).
- The heads of national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies of the CIS and Baltic states will meet to discuss the seventh European regional conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in Moscow scheduled for April 2006 (11.00).
* The fifth nationwide youth scientific-technical exhibition, NTTM-2005, will open under the auspices of UNESCO at the All-Russia Exhibition Center (June 29 - July 3).
* A news conference, The Development of the Air Taxi Service in Moscow, will be held (12.00).
* A news conference on the European cycling championship on the Olympic course in Krylatskoye (western Moscow) scheduled for July 7-10 will be held (14.00).
* A news conference on the open European parachuting championship and World Cup in Stupino (the Moscow region) due on July 4-9 will be held (15.00).
ST. PETERSBURG
* The Second International Naval Salon will open (June 39 - July 3).
PETROZAVODSK
* The Federation Council's committee for CIS affairs will hold a visiting session on the topic, The European Region: Problems, Prospects and Legislative Aspects.
MINSK
* An expert group on the proposed CIS bureau against organized crime and other serious crimes will hold a session (June 29 - July 1).
* The Belarussian-Moldovan-Lithuanian-Ukrainian working group for developing motor and railway carriages will hold the first session (June 29-30).
DUSHANBE
* The Council of Justice Ministers of the Eurasian Economic Community (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) will hold a session.
SANAA
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the 32nd session of the foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as a guest.
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