* Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov. A meeting of Russian and Cypriot businessmen will be held during his visit (9:00 a.m.).
* RIA Novosti will host the following news conferences:
- on the topic, The Federal Contest Commission: the development of Russia's modern media space (12:00 p.m.);
- with His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and all Albania on the coexistence of Christianity and Islam in Albania, the only European country with a Muslim majority (12:00 p.m.)
* Celebrations of the traditional Russian student holiday, St. Tatyana's Day (January 25), will begin at Moscow State University (3:00 p.m.).
* Armenia will present the statue of Empress Catherine the Great by Russian sculptor Alexander Opekushin to Moscow at a ceremony in the Tretyakov Gallery (2:30 p.m.).
* The Russian independence Triumph awards ceremony for arts and culture will be presented at the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum (12:00 p.m.).
LIPETSK
* The opening ceremony of a special industrial economic zone will take place in the Lipetsk Region in Central Russia.
BARNAUL
* A court in the Altai Territory will resume hearings of the case on governor Mikhail Yevdokimov's death.
BAKU
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will arrive in Azerbaijan on a three-day official visit.
GRODNO, BELARUS
* A session of the border committee of the Russia-Belarus Union will be held.
KIEV
* The Kiev Court of Appeals will hear the case of journalist Georgy Gongadze's murder.
VIENNA
* The first session of the 14th Economic Forum of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (January 23-24) will open. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko will head the Russian delegation.
STRASBOURG, FRANCE
* The January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (until January 27) will begin. It will focus on the observation of human rights in Chechnya.
THE HAGUE
* The trial of former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic will resume after a one-and-a-half--month recess.
KHARTOUM
* A two-day summit of the African Union will open.
OTTAWA
* Parliamentary elections will be held in Canada.
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