* The Russian Culture and Mass Communication Ministry will host a session of its board on film distribution, promotion of Russian movies and books and exhibition activities (10:00 a.m.).
* Speaker of the Russian Federation Council (the parliament's upper house) Sergei Mironov will meet with Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Anatoliy Kinakh (4:30 p.m.).
* Secretary General of the Eurasian Economic Community Grigory Rapota will give a news conference on the fifth anniversary of EurAsEC, its problems and prospects (11:00 a.m.).
* RIA Novosti will host:
- a news conference with Federation Council Deputy Speaker Svetlana Orlova on the formation principles and main parameters of the 2006 federal draft budget and key issues of Russia's socio-economic development (11:00 a.m.).
- a roundtable on the role of Russian-Kazakh cooperation in the consolidation of the Central Asian security system (3:00 p.m.).
* The Central House of Journalists will host a roundtable on Russia's Democratic Audit project (2:00 p.m.).
* Hearing of the case of Moscow doctors accused of illegal transplantation of human organs will began at the Moscow City Court.
PERM - KUDYMKAR
* The legislatures of the Perm region and Komi-Permyak autonomous district will consider the candidacy of Oleg Chirkunov, acting governor of the Perm region, for governor. Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District Sergei Kiriyenko will attend legislature sessions.
TASHKENT
* The eighth two-day session of the Russian-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation will open.
MADRID
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a routine visit to Spain. He will meet with King Juan Carlos I and his Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos.
NEW DELHI
* The first stage of the Indra-2005 Russian-Indian military exercises will open (October 10-20).
WASHINGTON
* U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice is set to begin her three-day Central Asian tour.
STOCKHOLM
* The laureate of the 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will be announced.
LONDON
* The laureate of the Man Booker Prize 2005 will be announced.
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