NOVEMBER
November 28
MOSCOW - A roundtable on Russia's role in major international organizations (the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe).
MOSCOW - Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with military conscripts.
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 - A session of the committee of security-council secretaries from the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
MOSCOW - The third international forum entitled, Russian Natural Gas-2005 (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The first annual conference, The Russian market of collective investments (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The seventh annual Product of the Year awards ceremony.
MOSCOW - A national Serbian exhibition (until December 1).
DUSHANBE - The Russian National Exhibition (until December 2).
November 30
MOSCOW - A session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
LONDON - The Sakhalin Oil and Natural Gas ninth conference (until December 1).
DECEMBER
December 1
MOSCOW - The second annual federal investment forum (until December 2).
MOSCOW - The annual national forum, Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia (until December 2).
December 2
MOSCOW - A roundtable on priorities of Russia's international scientific-technical and innovation cooperation.
MOSCOW - A conference on business innovations.
VLADIKAVKAZ - The signing of an agreement between North Ossetia and Swiss company ABB on the implementation of an unprecedented program on the modernization of water supplies.
YEREVAN - The Russian National Exhibition in Armenia (until December 5).
HANOI - Days of Moscow (until December 3).
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
MOSCOW - A conference on the strategy of state regulations in the sphere of natural and mineral resources.
MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA - An extraordinary summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
December 8
MOSCOW - The second international anti-terrorism media forum under the auspices of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (until December 10).
MOSCOW - The Tverskoi Court will issue the verdict on the case of 39 members of the National Bolshevik Party accused of seizing an office of the presidential staff.
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 13
MOSCOW - A ceremony titled "Russian corporate management leaders."
MOSCOW - A roundtable on the topic, Mortgage: a government PR-project or a real financing mechanism for the building market.
HONG KONG - The sixth ministerial session of the World Trade Organization.
December 14
MOSCOW - The ninth all-Russia exposition of national products (until December 19).
December 15
MOSCOW - A nationwide conference on legislative aspects and problems of cooperation development (until December 16).
BAGHDAD - Parliamentary elections in Iraq.
December 17
MOSCOW - A congress of the Russian Pensioners' Party.
December 23
TYUMEN - The first leg of Kostya Tszyu's international professional boxing cup.
WARSAW - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski will conclude his term in office.
December 27
IVANOVO - Mikhail Men's inauguration ceremony as governor of the Central Russian region of Ivanovo.
