* Ambassadors of some states will present their credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
* A cabinet meeting will be held. The government will consider draft amendments to the federal laws On Banks and Banking Activity and On Bankruptcy of Credit Organizations.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, currently in Moscow, will meet with Russian Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov (10.00) and State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov (12.30) and will participate in the opening ceremony of the Window to Hungary cultural season (16.00 - a press conference; 17.00 - the opening of the exhibition "The Hungarian Kingdom Between Two Empires").
* Secretary of the Iranian Supreme Council for National Security Hasan Rowhani will arrive in Moscow on a two-day routine visit at an invitation from Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov.
* The Russian federal forestry agency will host the presentation of the results of space monitoring of illegal forest felling on Russian territory, in particular, in the Irkutsk region and Krasnoyarsk territory (10.00).
* The Russian Federation Council will host a roundtable on the problems of the implementation of the common international collective security system in the Caspian Sea area (10.00).
* The Russian State Duma will host:
- a session of the parliamentary commission for the investigation of the terrorist attack on Beslan (North Ossetia-Alania) (15.00);
- parliamentary hearings on the topic "Legislative aspects of the development of East Siberian oil and gas fields. Russian gas supplies to the Asia-Pacific region as a new impetus to the development of Russia's economic cooperation with this region" (15.00).
* The Russian Information Agency Novosti will host the following press conferences:
- on the events organized by the National Economic Development Corporation in 2005: the Golden Ruble 4th all-Russia economic development contest; the 3rd international conference entitled "Regional economic development and promotion of Russia's cooperation with EU countries" and the international contest of children's drawings on the topic "Victory is always with us!" (12.00);
- on the topic "Western role in the orange revolution and the Eurasian strategy in Ukraine" (13.30).
* Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia Anthony Brenton will deliver a report on the issue "International tasks of the early 21st century: the viewpoint of Great Britain" (10.00).
* The Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry will host a roundtable on the 60th anniversary of the Crimean conference of the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition (14.00).
* Chairman of the State Duma security committee Vladimir Vasilyev will give a press conference on the restoration of confiscation as a way to fight terrorism, organized crime and corruption (14.00).
* The Unity For Russia's Sake foundation and Russia's Strategy magazine will hold a roundtable on the ways to increase Russia's capitalization (14.00).
* A Russian-French conference on the topic "Intellectual property on the service of innovations: juridical protection, protection of rights and use" will be held as part of the Moscow international salon of innovations and investments (9.30).
KALININGRAD
* Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin will arrive in Kaliningrad on a routine trip. He is to hold a session with the regional authorities, heads of municipal bodies and transport enterprises. It will focus on the replacement of social benefits with cash payments. On Friday Mr. Levitin will participate in the four-sided routine meeting of the Russian, German, Lithuanian and Polish transportation ministers.
YEREVAN
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be paying an official visit to Armenia. He is to meet with Armenian leaders,
On Thursday night Mr. Lavrov will go to Tbilisi.
GENEVA
* The 26th session of the working group on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will be held. The Russian delegation is headed by director of the department of trade negotiations of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry Maxim Medvedkov.
STANFORD, US
* Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko will part
In the Russian-US technological symposium. He is a cochairman of this symposium. Mr. Fursenko is to deliver a report on the possibilities of the Russian-US partnership.
TOKYO
* The Russian-Japanese seminar on the topic "Banks, financial instruments and investment building in Russia" organized by the Association of Japanese Businessmen will be held in Tokyo.
WASHINGTON
* The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold hearings on the situation in Russia under the chairmanship of Republican senator Richard Lugar. Yukos CEO Steven Theede is expected to deliver a report.
LONDON
* The 16th charity ball War and Peace will open in London. Its founder and organizer is Count Andrei Tolstoi-Miloslavsky, a descendant of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoi. About 400 guests, including representatives of the famous Russian aristocratic families, are invited to the ball.
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