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SEPTEMBER
September 24
MOSCOW - The congress of the Union of Right Forces political party.
DALIAN, CHINA - The Border and Inter-regional Cooperation Russian-Chinese conference.
September 25
ULAN BATOR - The first Mongolian-Russian conference on the development of business initiatives, Mongolia and Russia: Economic Cooperation Prospects (till September 26).
HATAY, TURKEY - About 3,000 scholars, religious and cultural figures will attend the First Assembly of Civilizations, which aims to foster productive dialogue between religions (till September 30).
WARSAW - Elections to the Polish Sejm (parliament) and Senate.
September 26
MOSCOW - The Exports of Oil and Oil Products from Russia international conference (till September 27).
MOSCOW - Tony Brenton, the British ambassador to Russia, will give a news conference on Russian-British cooperation.
BEIJING - A two-day international conference on transport routes, Europe-Asia.
September 27
MOSCOW - The annual Effective PR forum.
KHABAROVSK - A two-day international economic congress, Horizons of Russia's Partnership with Asia-Pacific Countries: People, Nature, Economy.
CAIRO - The inauguration of Egypt's first directly elected president, Hosni Mubarak.
September 28
MOSCOW - The Infocommunications in the 21st Century international forum (till October 1).
MOSCOW - The Russian Investment Conference: A Key to Success. An annual Brunswick UBS conference with government members, leading Russian executives, prominent economists and political commentators (till September 30).
SOCHI - The Kuban-2005 international economic forum (till October 1).
ANKARA - The IDEF-2005 Defense Industry, Aerospace and Maritime Fair (till September 30).
OCTOBER
October 3
MOSCOW - General Anton Denikin, a leader of the 'White' anti-Bolshevik movement, and Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin will be reburied at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow.
LONDON - The seventh conference of Russian and EU industrialists.
BRUSSELS - The Europalia-Russia festival of Russian culture.
STOCKHOLM - The first 2005 Nobel Prizes are announced.
October 4
LONDON - A Russia-EU summit.
ST. PETERSBURG - The Russian Timber Industry of the 21st Century seventh international forum (till October 7).
VIRGINIA, U.S. - The trial of Peggy Sue Hilt, who is accused of murdering of her adopted Russian daughter, will open in Manassas.
October 6
YEREVAN - About 100 representatives of NATO member nations and countries involved in the NATO Partnership for Peace program will attend the Road Rose workshop under the auspices of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (till October 9).
October 7
MOSCOW - The Golden Fall-2005 Russian agro-industrial exhibition (till October 11).
KALININGRAD - Command-post exercises overseen by Chief of the Russian General Staff Yury Baluyevsky (till October 12).
CHISINAU - The international business forum of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
OSLO - The announcement of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winners.
October 9
WARSAW - Presidential elections in Poland.
October 11
MOSCOW - The Leaders in Moscow two-day business forum.
CHONGQING, CHINA - A conference of mayors of the Asia-Pacific Rim, including some Russian cities (till October 14).
October 15
BAGHDAD - A referendum on the new draft constitution of Iraq.
October 17
MOSCOW - The World Economic Forum (till October 18).
October 20
KIEV - A two-day session of the Ukraine-NATO commission with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
October 21
ABUJA - Nigeria's Federal Court will hear the case of Russian sailors accused of oil smuggling.
October 23
KAMCHATKA, KORYAKIA - A referendum on the unification of the far-eastern Kamchatka region and the Koryak autonomous district into a single Russian Federation member.
