NOVEMBER
November 16
MOSCOW - The annual regional investment congress entitled the Key Factors for Investment Success in the Russian Regions (until November 17).
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.
VORONEZH - The fourth congress of the Youth Unity all-Russia organization.
BRUSSELS - The eighth session of the Russia-EU parliament cooperation committee (until November 17).
November 17
MOSCOW - The Russian National Olympus 12th awards ceremony.
ST. PETERSBURG - An international conference on cooperation against drug addiction and illicit drug trafficking.
SAMSUN, TURKEY - Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish and Italian Prime Ministers Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Silvio Berlusconi will attend the opening ceremony of the Russian-Turkish natural gas pipeline Blue Stream.
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
SEOUL - President Vladimir Putin's routine visit to South Korea after the APEC summit.
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 21
ST. PETERSBURG - The second international conference on the integration of Russian and international financial markets in the globalization conditions (until November 22).
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.
MOSCOW - A reception dedicated to Mother's Day at the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament.
MALTA - The Commonwealth summit (until November 25).
November 24
MOSCOW - The sixth Moscow international financial forum, entitled Banks and Business: Development Trends.
MOSCOW - The second seminar on the financial security of business.
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.
BARCELONA, SPAIN - The Mediterranean summit with representatives from 36 countries (until November 28).
November 28
BAGHDAD - The trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his seven accomplices will be resumed.
November 29
MOSCOW - A two-day session of the council of foreign and defense ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan).
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).
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.
December 12
MALAYSIA - The Russia-ASEAN Summit (December 12-13).
GRAND CANARY, SPAIN - The international economic cooperation forum, Europe Meets China (until December 12).
December 14
MOSCOW - The ninth all-Russia exposition of national products (until December 19).
December 15
BAGHDAD - Parliamentary elections in Iraq.
December 17
MOSCOW - A congress of the Russian Pensioners' Party.
