* The first International Fur Festival will open at 5:00 p.m. Moscow time (to last until October 31).
BAIKONUR
* A Soyuz TMA-7 spaceship will be launched at 7:55 a.m. Moscow time to transport the 12th expedition crew (Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, American astronaut William McArthur, and space tourist Gregory Olsen) to the International Space Station.
SAKHALIN REGION
* Russian Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, Indian Energy Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, and Japanese Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry Hirata Koichi will attend the First Oil festival on the coast of the Chaivo Bay, where the industrial production of oil and natural gas is being started under the Sakhalin-1 project.
MINSK
* The Congress of Democratic Forces of Belarus, the united opposition body, will propose its candidate for the 2006 presidential elections.
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