* Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue his visit to Japan (until November 22).
MOSCOW
* Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Mahmud Zebari will arrive in Moscow on a routine visit.
* The Federation Council (parliament's upper house) will host:
- a conference on the topic, The 100th anniversary of Russia's parliamentary system: women's rights (10:00 a.m.);
- a session of the chamber's council for the agro-industrial sphere on measures against bird flu, etc.(1:00 p.m.).
* The Russian Central Election Commission will consider preparations for parliamentary elections in Chechnya scheduled for November 27 (12:00 p.m.).
* An international conference on the topic, Anti-crisis management in Russia - The world practice of anti-crisis management, will be held (10:00 a.m.). President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Audit Chamber Sergei Stepashin, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Andrei Sharonov, etc. will attend.
* The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will host a seminar on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (10:00 a.m.).
* RIA Novosti will host a news conference on the Islam For Peace forum due on December 10 in Gudermes, Chechnya to commemorate first Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov (12:00 p.m.).
* A nationwide forum, Youth Is Changing the World, organized by the Education and Science Ministry, will open (November 21-22). About 600 leaders and activists of youth public organizations from all Russian regions, foreign experts, parliamentarians, pop stars, and athletes will take part in the event (10:00 a.m.).
ST. PETERSBURG
* The second international conference on the integration of Russian and international financial markets in the conditions of globalization will open at the Constantine Palace (November 21-22).
SMOLENSK
* The first session of the Russian-Belarusian joint commission for the protection and rational use of trans-border water facilities will be held (November 21-23).
BRUSSELS
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend a ministerial conference on the Northern Dimension.
LONDON
* The 24th session of the Assembly of the International Maritime Organization will open (November 21 - December 3). Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transportation Alexander Davydenko and representatives of the Russian Transportation, Foreign, and Defense Ministries, and the Federal Security Service will attend.
LAGOS
* The Nigerian Court of Appeals will hear the case of 12 Russian sailors accused of crude oil smuggling.
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