NOVEMBER
November 8
MOSCOW - The ninth awards ceremony of the Darin national prize of the Russian Business and Entrepreneurship Academy.
MOSCOW - The RybpromExpo-2005 international fishery exhibition (until November 11).
November 9
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, EU High Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and EU Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighborhood Policy.
MOSCOW - The Organizational Technologies in Banks-2005 international forum.
MOSCOW - The second all-Russia tax forum, Business and state tax policy.
VELIKY NOVGOROD - An international conference on legal aspects of ecological security in Europe.
BEIJING - The fifth round of the six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear problem.
LISBON - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's two-day visit to Portugal.
LONDON - The Russian and CIS Oil and Natural Gas annual conference organized by the Energy Exchange company (until November 10).
ISTANBUL - The third international Caspian summit for banks, financing, and investments for the Caspian region, Turkey, the CIS, and Central Asia (Banking and Finance 2005).
November 10
BERLIN - Chinese President Hu Jintao's three-day visit to Germany to meet with outgoing Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice beginning a tour of the Middle East and Asia (November 10-21), to visit Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel (including Palestinian-administered territories), South Korea, China and Mongolia.
November 11
MOSCOW - A conference, Major Russian companies - the basis of economic growth.
MOSCOW - The eleventh congress of Russian Mining Industrialists.
MOSCOW - A business meeting on the use of the Eurasian Economic Community's customs union to boost business in EurAsEC member states.
MOSCOW - A roundtable on the topic, Homeless children threaten national security.
KHANTY-MANSIISK - The fifth Seagull theater festival (until November 19).
November 14
MOSCOW - The Russian Metal Market eighth international conference will open as part of Metal Week in Moscow (November 14-18).
ANTALYA, TURKEY - An international conference on competition held under the auspices of the United Nations once in five years (until November 18).
November 15
MOSCOW - RusEnergyLaw Week-2005 (until November 18).
AQABA, JORDAN - A meeting of Russian and Arab investors (until November 17).
LJUBLJANA - A session of the Joint Control Commission for the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict resolution will be held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (until November 16).
November 16
MOSCOW - A plenary session of the scientific-technical congress for security on the topic, Security is the basis of stable development in regions and large cities.
ST. PETERSBURG - A congress of CIS and Baltic non-governmental organizations on cooperation in the spheres of science, culture, and education. Russian Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will attend.
November 17
MOSCOW - The Russian National Olympus 12th awards ceremony.
ST. PETERSBURG - An international conference on cooperation against drug addiction and illicit drug trafficking.
DOHA - An international conference of Afghanistan's donor countries.
November 18
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit (until November 19).
MOSCOW, KAZAN - A festival of Egyptian culture in Russia (until November 28).
November 19
ROME - A conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Program (until November 26).
November 20
TOKYO - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan (until November 21).
November 22
MOSCOW - The Moscow Business Dialogue international forum (until November 23).
MOSCOW - A conference, Producers against Fake Goods: Strategies and Successes (until November 23).
ST. PETERSBURG - An international conference against illegal tree felling with representatives from 56 countries.
BERLIN - New members of the German Bundestag (parliament) will vote for Angela Merkel's candidacy for chancellor.
November 23
MOSCOW - The 13th international professional exhibition Press 2006 (until November 26).
MOSCOW - The Metal-Fuel and Energy Complex annual conference-2005.
MALTA - The Commonwealth summit (until November 25).
November 25
MOSCOW - The open CIS, Baltic and Eastern European Taekwondo championship (until November 26).
November 26
KRASNOYARSK - A congress of the United Russia party on the development program of Siberia and the Far East.
KHANTY-MANSIISK - The World Chess Cup (until December 17).
November 27
GROZNY - Parliamentary elections in Chechnya.
GREECE - The Olympic flame for the 2006 Winter Games at Turin will be lit in ancient Olympia.
November 28
BAGHDAD - The trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his seven accomplices will be resumed.
November 29
MOSCOW - The first annual conference, The Russian market of collective investments (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The seventh annual Product of the Year awards ceremony.
DUSHANBE - The Russian National Exhibition (until December 2).
November 30
LONDON - The Sakhalin Oil and Natural Gas conference (until December 1).
ROME/ANKARA - Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit Turkey and meet with Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew.
DECEMBER
December 1
MOSCOW - The second annual federal investment forum (until December 2).
December 2
YEREVAN - The Russian National Exhibition in Armenia (until December 5).
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A. - The Federal District Court of San Francisco will deliver a verdict on the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko.
December 4
MOSCOW - Elections to the Moscow City Duma and by-elections to the State Duma in two districts.
ASTANA - Presidential elections in Kazakhstan.
December 6
MOSCOW - The Russian Industry for the Oil and Natural Gas Complex specialized exhibition (until December 8).
LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA - The LIMA-2005 Asia-Pacific Air Show (until December 11).
December 7
JIDDA, SAUDI ARABIA - An extraordinary summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
December 10
STOCKHOLM/OSLO - 2005 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
