November 22 morning preview

TOKYO

* Russian President Vladimir Putin will conclude his three-day visit to Japan.

MOSCOW

* A session of the Russian trilateral commission for the regulation of socio-labor relations will be held at the Government House (10:00 a.m.).

* The first three-day session of the Russian-Angolan intergovernmental commission for trade and economic and scientific-technical cooperation will open (3:00 p.m.).

* The Federation Council (parliament's upper chamber) will host:

- a session on the modernization of the social insurance system in Russia (10:30 a.m.);

- a session of the chamber's commission for natural monopolies (10:00 a.m.).

* The State Duma will host a session of the lower chamber's council (10:00 a.m.).

* RIA Novosti will host a news conference with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry Rashid Mohamed Rashid on the successful development of Russian-Egyptian trade and economic relations (2:00 p.m.).

* The presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party will meet to discuss preparations for the upcoming sixth congress in Krasnoyarsk (5:00 p.m.).

* The fifth, three-day nationwide exhibition entitled Russian Producers and Supplies of the Armed Forces will open (10:00 a.m.).

* The U.S. Embassy in Russia will host a news conference on the Russian-U.S. volunteer initiative-2005 (6:00 p.m.).

* The Moscow Business Dialog two-day international forum will open (10:00 a.m.). Presidential aide Igor Shuvalov, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref, Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jean Lemierre, etc. will attend.

* A two-day conference on the transition to international financial reporting standards will open (9.00 a.m.).

* An online conference on Unified Energy Systems' policy in 2006 will be held (1:45 p.m.).

* A news conference on Russian technologies in world nuclear engineering will be held (12:00 p.m.).

* A roundtable on the topic, "What awaits Russian agriculture after accession to the WTO: bankruptcy or rise?" will be held (1:00 p.m.).

* The Gelikon Opera Theater will host the awards ceremony of the 2005 journalism prize of the Union of the German Economy in Russia dedicated to the union's 10th anniversary (6:00 p.m.).

NIZHNY TAGIL

* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will arrive in the Ural town of Nizhny Tagil and inspect combat vehicles.

ST. PETERSBURG

* An international conference against illegal tree felling with representatives from 55 countries will open (November 22-25).

MURMANSK

* Finnish Minister of Health and Social Services Liisa Hyssala will arrive in the northern Russian region of Murmansk on a two-day visit. She will visit a local Tuberculosis center.

ALTAI TERRITORY

* A court of the Siberian Altai Territory will start hearing a case on former governor Mikhail Yevdokimov's death in a car accident.

ASTANA

* The 19th session of the special working group for drafting a convention on the Caspian Sea's legal status will be held at the level of deputy foreign ministers.

KIEV

* Celebrations of the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine will be held.

RABAT

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will start his three-day South African tour and arrive in Morocco. After that, he will visit Algeria and Tunisia.

BRUSSELS

* Sessions of the NATO-Belarus political committee and Ukraine-NATO working group will be held.

BERLIN

* New members of the German Bundestag (parliament) will vote for Angela Merkel's candidacy for chancellor.

PARIS

* The Milipol-2005 international security exhibition will open at Le Bourget. Rosoboronexport will present products of Russian enterprises.

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