* A government session will be held.
* Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will hold a two-day visit to the Perm region.
* The State Duma (the lower chamber of parliament) will hold an additional session to discuss the 2006 federal draft budget in the first reading (10:00 a.m.).
* An all-Russia conference, Women as leaders of new Russia. The competitive ability of the nation. A program of action, will open (September 22-23).
* The Moscow City Court will consider the appeal against the sentence of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky passed by the Meshchansky Court.
* Russian and French businessmen will meet at the French Embassy in Moscow (9:00 a.m.). French Minister for Foreign Trade Christine Lagarde and Ambassador Jean Cadet will attend.
* Canadian Ambassador to Russia Christopher Westdal will deliver a report on the topic, Russia and Canada - a predestined partnership, at the International University in Moscow (10:30 a.m.).
* RIA Novosti will host a news conference with head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power Alexander Rumyantsev on the topic, The development of Russian nuclear power and its role in the country's power security (dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the branch; 4:00 p.m.).
* The Interfax news agency will host a news conference with Chairman of the Chechen State Council Taus Jabrailov on preparations for the parliamentary elections in Chechnya (12:00 p.m.).
* A news conference on the completion of the third stage of the introduction of the deposit insurance system in Russian banks will be held (12:00 p.m.).
* The Expert analytical center, LUKoil, and the Union of Russian Oil and Natural Gas Industrialists will hold a roundtable on the influence of infrastructure and the taxation system on the Russian oil sector (9:00 a.m.).
* A news conference on the use of the principles of state-private partnership for the implementation of investment projects in Russia will be held (9:00 a.m.).
ST. PETERSBURG
* Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson will attend the opening ceremony of the south-western purification facilities, the key project of the Northern Dimension program.
* Finnish President Tarja Halonen will attend the opening ceremony of the Nokian Tires plant in the Leningrad region.
VLADIVOSTOK
* Russian-South Korean coastguard exercises will be held in the Gulf of Peter the Great during the visit of patrol vessels of the South Korean National Maritime Police Agency to Vladivostok.
SOCHI
* The Generation of Responsibility first forum of young CIS and Baltic leaders will open (September 22-24).
TASHKENT
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, currently on a routine visit to Uzbekistan, will meet with Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Merziyeyev and National Security Council Chairman Rustam Inoyatov.
KIEV
* The 22nd round of Russian-Ukrainian talks on the delimitation of the Azov and Black Seas and the Kerch Strait will open (September 22-23).
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