OCTOBER
October 31
MOSCOW - The fifth Russian Oil and Natural Gas Week (until November 2).
MOSCOW - The first all-Russia congress of emergency doctors (until November 3).
BEIJING - The sixth session of the Russian-Chinese commission for cooperation in the spheres of health care, education, culture and sports co-chaired by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and China's State Councilor Chen Zhili.
NOVEMBER
November 1
BEIJING - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and Vice Premier of the Chinese State Council Wu Yi will oversee the ninth session of the Russian-Chinese commission for regular prime ministerial contacts.
MOSCOW - The World Bank's office will host a news conference on the eleventh report on the Russian economy.
ISRAEL - The World Team Chess Championship (until November 10). Pyotr Svidler will lead the Russian national team.
November 2
MOSCOW - Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with Serbian and Montenegrin parliament's speaker Zoran Sami.
MOSCOW - The third international conference, Russian Railways on the Transportation Services Market: Cooperation and Partnership (until November 3).
MOSCOW - An international conference on affordable housing in Russia (until November 3).
November 3
BEIJING - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's official visit to China.
MOSCOW - A business forum on the topic, Methods of Appraising Effectiveness of Social Responsibility Policy.
MOSCOW - The National Ecological Awards second ceremony.
November 6
MOSCOW - A seminar, How to Become a Gazprom Supplier.
AMUR REGION - The launch of the fourth generating unit of the Bureisk hydroelectric power plant.
BAKU - Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
November 7
GENEVA - The World Health Organization's international conference on bird flu (until November 9).
CAIRO - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's official visit to Egypt.
November 8
MOSCOW - The ninth awards ceremony of the Darin national prize of the Russian Business and Entrepreneurship Academy.
MOSCOW - The RybpromExpo-2005 international fishery exhibition (until November 11).
November 9
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, EU High Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and EU Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighborhood Policy.
MOSCOW - The Organizational Technologies in Banks-2005 international forum.
MOSCOW - The second all-Russia tax forum, Business and state tax policy.
VELIKY NOVGOROD - An international conference on legal aspects of ecological security in Europe.
LISBON - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's two-day visit to Portugal.
LONDON - The Russian and CIS Oil and Natural Gas annual conference organized by the Energy Exchange company (until November 10).
November 11
MOSCOW - A conference, Major Russian companies - the basis of economic growth.
MOSCOW - The eleventh congress of Russian Mining Industrialists.
KHANTY-MANSIISK - The fifth Seagull theater festival (until November 19).
November 14
MOSCOW - The Russian Metal Market eighth international conference will open as part of Metal Week in Moscow (November 14-18).
November 15
AQABA, JORDAN - A meeting of Russian and Arab investors (until November 17).
November 16
MOSCOW - A plenary session of the scientific-technical congress for security on the topic, Security is the basis of stable development in regions and large cities.
November 17
MOSCOW - The Russian National Olympus 12th awards ceremony.
ST. PETERSBURG - An international conference on cooperation against drug addiction and illicit drug trafficking.
DOHA - An international conference of Afghanistan's donor countries.
November 18
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit (until November 19).
MOSCOW, KAZAN - A festival of Egyptian culture in Russia (until November 28).
November 20
TOKYO - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan (until November 21).
November 22
MOSCOW - The Moscow Business Dialogue international forum (until November 23).
MOSCOW - A conference, Producers against Fake Goods: Strategies and Successes (until November 23).
ST. PETERSBURG - An international conference against illegal tree felling with representatives from 56 countries.
BERLIN - New members of the German Bundestag (parliament) will vote for Angela Merkel's candidacy for chancellor.
November 23
MOSCOW - The Metal-Fuel and Energy Complex annual conference-2005.
MALTA - The Commonwealth summit (until November 25).
November 25
MOSCOW - The open CIS, Baltic and Eastern European Taekwondo championship (until November 26).
November 26
KRASNOYARSK - A congress of the United Russia party on the development program of Siberia and the Far East.
KHANTY-MANSIISK - The World Chess Cup (until December 17).
November 27
GROZNY - Parliamentary elections in Chechnya.
GREECE - The Olympic flame for the 2006 Winter Games at Turin will be lit in ancient Olympia.
November 28
BAGHDAD - The trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his seven accomplices will be resumed.
November 29
MOSCOW - The first annual conference, The Russian market of collective investments (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The seventh annual Product of the Year awards ceremony.
DUSHANBE - The Russian National Exhibition (until December 2).
November 30
LONDON - The Sakhalin Oil and Natural Gas conference (until December 1).
ROME/ANKARA - Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit Turkey and meet with Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew.
