* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Kosovo Kai Eide at 10.00 a.m. and Kenyan Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere at 11.00 a.m.
* Russian Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev will chair an all-Russia selector session on preparations for Russian housing and communal facilities for the 2005-2006 fall-winter period at 10.00 a.m.
* Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev will head for the Republic of South Africa and Namibia on a routine visit scheduled for July 15-18.
* Vladimir Yakunin, the president of the Russian Railways monopoly, will give a news briefing on the company's work in the first half of 2005 at 9.30 a.m.
* The State Duma (parliament's lower house) will host a roundtable at 11.00 a.m. on increasing effectiveness of intellectual activity results, financed by the federal budget. It is dedicated to the drafting of the federal law on the transfer of federal technologies.
* British Ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton will give a news conference at 11.00 a.m. on the terrorist attacks in London and the necessity of boosting international anti-terrorist efforts.
* The Patriarch Palace of the Moscow Kremlin will host a press conference on the presentation of the Kalashnikov Weapons collection of daggers with General Director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums Yelena Gagarina and small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov at 3.00 p.m.
* Leading businessmen and politicians from the Moscow region will meet with a delegation of Belarusian colleagues.
* The Davis Cup quarterfinals between the Russian and French men's tennis teams will start at the Olimpiisky sports complex at 1.00 p.m.
VOLOGDA (Northwestern Russia)
* Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin will inspect a number of transport facilities in the Vologda region and hold a session on the development of the regional transport infrastructure and the implementation of the law on the replacement of social benefits in kind with cash payments.
RYAZAN (Central Russia)
* Russian Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev will visit the Ryazan region and attend the opening ceremony of the Russian Field Day-2005 exhibition. He will also meet with heads of the local agro-industrial complex.
VITEBSK, BELARUS
* The 14th Slavic Bazaar arts festival will open involving representatives of 33 countries and run through July 21.
MENTON, FRANCE
* Ships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet will arrive at the French port of Menton. The urn with the remains of the last naval minister of the Russian Empire, Ivan Grigorovich, will be handed to Russian representatives to be reburied in St. Petersburg.
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