* Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko will hold a news conference on the results of a nationwide session of heads of education bodies on the tasks of Russia's education system for 2006 (1:00 p.m.).
* The third annual national volunteer awards ceremony will take place (10:00 a.m.).
* The mourning service for veteran Soviet actor Georgy Zhzhyonov, who died at the age of 90 Thursday, will take place at the Mossovet Theater (11:00 a.m.). The actor will be buried at Novodevichye cemetery.
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* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Malaysia to attend a forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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* The 2005 Nobel Prize awards ceremony will be held.
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