* Japan's Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga will arrive in Moscow on a three-day official visit. He will meet with Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov (January 13), and attend the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and a military unit near Moscow.
* The State Duma will host a session of the lower chamber's council. Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare Gennady Onishchenko will deliver a report on measures against bird flu.
* St. Petersburg Academician Oleg Kiselyov will give a news conference on the threat of a bird flu pandemic and the effectiveness of the Russian vaccine (10:00 a.m.).
VLADIKAVKAZ
* The trial of Nurpashi Kulayev, accused of involvement in the Beslan school siege, will resume.
MINSK
* Chairman of the WTO General Council Amina Mohamed will arrive in Belarus on a three-day visit. He will meet with Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov and attend several factories, and culture and sports facilities.
BAKU
* Representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will monitor compliance with the cease-fire agreement in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict zone (Nagorny Karabakh).
BERLIN
* A major international agricultural and food exhibition, Green Week-2006, will open. The Russian delegation at the exhibition includes Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko, regional governors, and the heads of major Russian agricultural companies.
* The foreign ministers of the European Trio, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, France's Philippe Douste-Blazy and Britain's Jack Straw, along with EU High Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, will meet to discuss Iran's resumption of nuclear research.
LUXEMBOURG
* Medical experts from 25 European Union countries will discuss measures to counter bird flu.
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