* German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will continue his two-day visit to St. Petersburg.
MOSCOW
* The Golden Fall-2005 seventh Russian agro-industrial exposition will open (10:00 a.m.). It is being organized by the Russian Agriculture Ministry, the Moscow government and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Presidential Envoy in the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov will attend the opening ceremony.
* A news conference following the first session of the Russian-Algerian intergovernmental commission for trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation will be held (1:30 p.m.).
* Boxer Wladimir Klitschko will give a news conference (12:00 p.m.).
PLESETSK
* A Rokot booster will launch the CryoSat satellite of the European Space Agency from the Plesetsk space center (7:02 p.m. Moscow time) to study the Earth's ice fields.
PYONGYANG
* Vice Premier of the Chinese State Council Wu Yi will visit North Korea (October 8-11) to discuss the nuclear-free status of the Korean peninsula.
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