OCTOBER
October 6
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov.
MOSCOW - The opening ceremony of the Days of Tajikistan's Culture in Russia (the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater).
MOSCOW - A new project promoting the implementation of the Kyoto protocol in Russia will be presented at the European Commission's office in Moscow.
ST. PETERSBURG - A summit of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization, involving the presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (until October 7).
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 (until October 9).
BAKU - The 18th session of the task force on the Caspian Sea status with the deputy foreign ministers of the five Caspian states: Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan.
BRUSSELS - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov's routine visit to Brussels (until October 7.)
October 7
MOSCOW - The Golden Fall-2005 Russian agro-industrial exhibition (until October 11).
MOSCOW - A Russian-German symposium, The Parliamentary System in Russia and Germany: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Russia's parliamentary system.
KALININGRAD - Command-post exercises overseen by Chief of the Russian General Staff Yury Baluyevsky (until 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 10
MOSCOW - The Wings of Russia third international aviation conference.
LONDON - The winner of the 2005 Man Booker International Prize will be announced.
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 (until October 14).
October 13
CHINA - The Shenzhou VI spacecraft with two astronauts aboard will be launched from the Jiuquan space center (the second manned space flight in China's history).
October 15
BAGHDAD - A referendum on the new Iraqi draft constitution.
October 17
MOSCOW - The World Economic Forum (until October 18).
October 18
MOSCOW - The Role of Parliaments in Counter-Terrorism international parliamentary conference (until October 19).
October 19
BAGHDAD - Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will go on trial.
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.
October 25
MOSCOW - The second international summit of financial directors organized by the Adam Smith Institute (until October 27).
MOSCOW - Fashion Week in Moscow, the presentation of spring/summer 2006 collections (until October 30).
October 26
MOSCOW - The eighth Eurasian TV forum (until October 30).
TARANTO, ITALY - Open court hearings on the murder of Russian national Alexander Rozenbakh, 17, by an Italian sailor in a fight on September 11, 2001.
October 27
LONDON (Surrey) - An informal meeting between the leaders of 25 EU countries (until October 28).
October 28
MOSCOW - The Private Banking conference.
October 29
MOSCOW - The 11th special congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
NOVEMBER
November 2
MOSCOW - The third international conference, Russian Railways on the Transportation Services Market: Cooperation and Partnership (until November 3).
November 3
MOSCOW - The National Ecological Awards second ceremony.
November 6
MOSCOW - A seminar, How to Become a Gazprom Supplier.
BAKU - Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
