* Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will hold a session of the military-industrial commission.
* The Federal Taxation Service will host an extended session on the topic, The analytical instruments of tax administration, with Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov (9:00 a.m.).
* Sessions of the council of defense ministers (9:30 a.m.) and the council of foreign ministers (11:00 a.m.) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan) will be held.
* The Russian Justice Ministry will host the sixth session of the council of justice ministers of the Eurasian Economic Community (10:00 a.m.).
* The Russian Audit Chamber and the Kazakh Audit Committee for the Implementation of the Republican Budget will hold a video conference overseen by their heads, Sergei Stepashin and Omarkhan Oksikbayev (10:00 a.m.).
* The Federation Council (parliament's upper chamber) will host:
- a seminar on budgetary planning (10:00 a.m.);
- a session on the draft law on the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Region (12:00 p.m.);
* RIA Novosti will host the following news conferences:
- on the topic, The 2006 budget of the education system and the Education national project, with Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko and Head of the Federal Education Agency Grigory Balykhin (12:00 p.m.);
-on the results and prospects of military and technical cooperation (11:00 a.m.);
- on the topic, Is Russia protected from accidents at chemical plants? (1:00 p.m.);
- with Deputy Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Natural Resources Oleg Mitvol on the results of the Natural Resources Ministry's inspection in the Khabarovsk Territory (2:30 p.m.).
* A conference on the topic, The Economy of Russia's energy resources: development strategy, fiscal and infrastructure restrictions, will be held (10:00 a.m.).
* A conference on the fight against fake goods will be held (10:00 a.m.).
* The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare will hold a seminar on food safety (10:00 a.m.).
* The Izvestia media center will host a roundtable on investments in Russia's IT sector (12:00 p.m.).
* A news conference, Children and HIV, will be held (9:00 a.m.). It is dedicated to U.S. government grants in the sphere of children's social protection. U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Burns, the head of the UNICEF office in Russia Carel de Rooy, etc. will attend.
* A two-day conference, Russian Cities in the 21st Century, will open at the President Hotel (9:30 a.m.).
* A Russian-German roundtable on corporate management in Russia will be held (9:30 a.m.).
* The Manege exposition center will host an exhibition of Russian jewelers (1:00 p.m.).
NIZHNEVARTOVSK
* The sixth world boxing cup of oil-producing countries will open. It is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District. Teams from Russia, the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, etc. will participate in the competitions.
VILNIUS
* Lithuanian, Russian and Swedish representatives will sign a trilateral agreement on the delimitation of exclusive economic zones and the continental shelf of the Baltic Sea.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY
* "The Day of the Russian Economy - 2005" Russian-German forum will open. Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref will attend.
TOULOUSE, FRANCE
* Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko will visit Toulouse and tour the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS).
HELSINKI
* Russian Deputy Transportation Minister Sergei Aristov will arrive in Finland on a four-day routine visit to attend a session of the working group for transportation of the Russian-Finnish intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation.
VIENNA
* The presentation of 11 regions of Russia's Northwest Federal District will open (November 30 - December 2). The presidential envoy to the federal district, Ilya Klebanov, will head the Russian delegation.
TEHRAN
* The 10th two-day session of the coordination committee for hydrometeorology and pollution monitoring of the Caspian Sea will open. Representatives of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, the World Meteorological Organization and the Caspian Ecological Program will attend.
LONDON
* The ninth two-day Sakhalin Oil and Natural Gas conference will open. Representatives of the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry will attend.
BERLIN
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel will make her first governmental statement to the parliament.
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