APRIL 7 MORNING PREVIEW

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MOSCOW

* The President Hotel will host the first integration forum "The Common Economic Space of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine: opportunities, problems and prospects" (April 7-8).

* Russian and Finnish Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and Jan Petersen will attend the opening ceremony of the Russian-Norwegian-Swedish seminar entitled "The international conflict settlement experience" (10.00). After that, Lavrov and Petersen will hold talks (11.00).

* The Russian State Duma will host:

- a session of the chamber's council (10.00);

- parliamentary hearing on the topic "Culture against terrorism" held by the State Duma culture committee (10.00).

* Moscow will host a roundtable entitled "The new era of political technologies in Russia, or What did the presidential chief of staff mean?". Those attending will be political analysts, spin doctors and businessmen, including Sergei Karaganov, Iosif Diskin and Gleb Pavlovsky (14.00).

* The Russian Information Agency Novosti will host the following press conferences:

- with head of the sales and marketing department of the Societe Generale bank Georges Soumelis on the bank's innovate financial instruments and its activities in Russia (12.30);

- with consultant at the Institute of Forecasts and International Information (France), member of the administrative council of the Higher Economics School in Moscow, member of the editorial board of the Courrier de pays de l'Est magazine Georges Sokoloff on the topic "Ways of Russia's integration into the European political and economic space" (13.30);

- with member of the State Duma security committee Nikolai Leonov entitled "Revolutions of the late 20th - early 19th centuries: trends and regularities" (14.00).

* The Central House of Journalists will host a press conference on the protection of Moscow's food markets from bad quality goods (14.00).

* Moscow will host a press conference on the TEFI-2005 national TV contest and the TEFI-REGION-2005 all-Russia TV contest (14.00).

* The Olympic Committee will discuss issues of Russian athletes' participation in international sporting associations (10.00).

KRASNOYARSK

* The second investment forum of the Krasnoyarsk territory will open. It will focus on key aspects of socio-economic development of Central Siberia.

BISHKEK

* The parliament of Kyrgyzstan intends to discuss pre-term resignation of President Askar Akayev. The discussion was postponed twice for technical reasons.

CHISINAU

* The inauguration ceremony of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin will take place.

HELSINKI

* A delegation of the Russian Justice Ministry headed by minister Yuri Chaika will take part in the 26th conference of European justice ministers (April 7-8). Chaika is to sign a number of documents, including the convention on the transfer of sentenced persons and the additional protocol to this convention.

GENEVA

* UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean Marie Guehenno will open the session on the Georgian-Abkhaz settlement (April 7-8).

MEXICO

* The 5th international aircraft exhibition and conference AEROEXPO-2005 will open in Mexico (April 7-10). The Rosoboronexport and the St. Petersburg aircraft repair company will present the center of helicopter technical service and overhaul.

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