* RIA Novosti will host a TV link between Moscow, Washington and Tbilisi on Kosovo independence (5.00 p.m., Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel. 637-50-19, 981-64-72).
* The Russian Supreme Court will start hearing appeals by Emergency Ministry General Vladimir Ganeyev and six officers from the Moscow Police Department, found guilty of corruption and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 20 years
* Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin will hold a news conference, Repressions of 1937: memory and lessons (12.00 p.m., Stariy Petrovsko-Razumovskiy Proezd, 1/23, build.1, tel. 786-67-88, 424-75-34, 424-75-31).
* A news conference on MAKS-2007, an air and space salon will b held (11.00 a.m., Bobrov Pereulok, 6, tel. 625-89-63, 624-97-14).
* A news conference on 10th international festival, Jazz at the Hermitage Garden, will be held (2.00 p.m., Hermitage Garden, ul. Karetniy Ryad, 3, tel. 699-99-52).
SOCHI
* Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin will make a working trip to Sochi to discuss transportation issues for 2014 Sochi Olympics.
VLADIKAVKAZ
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will open the Russian Cup on the rowing slalom.
ASHULUK TRAINING GROUND, Astrakhan Region
* Second stage of Combat Commonwealth - 2007 military exercise will begin.
NEVELSK, Sakhalin Region
* Alexander Khoroshavin, a newly appointer governor of the Sakhalin Region will make a visit to the earthquake-hit city
NOVOSIBIRSK
* A regional court will announce a verdict on the case of Nikolai Baluyev, a political activist accused of planning to carry out terrorist acts in the city
BISHKEK
* Chinese Leader Hu Jintao will make a visit
TEHRAN
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will set off on a Central Asian tour, visiting Afghanistan and ex-Soviet states, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan
BEIJING
* U.S. Undersecretary of State Christopher Hill will hold a meeting with Wu Dawei, deputy foreign minister of China
KAESONG, North Korea
* Representatives of the two Koreas will discuss the agenda of the forthcoming summit
TEL-AVIV, Israel
* Likud, the country's largest opposition party, will elect its new leader
BANGKOK
* The country's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife will go on trial on corruption charges.
LONDON
* About 250 environmental activists will hold protests against the expansion of Heathrow airport
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