NOVEMBER
November 24
MOSCOW - The sixth Moscow international financial forum, entitled Banks and Business: Development Trends.
MOSCOW - The second seminar on the financial security of business.
MOSCOW - A roundtable on the upgrading of the value-added tax.
MOSCOW - Parliamentary hearings on national security and migration policy.
MOSCOW - A roundtable on humanitarian cooperation and aid in Russia.
MOSCOW - An international conference on the development of nuclear power on the basis of fast neutron reactors with a closed fuel cycle will be held. Strategy and international cooperation prospects will be discussed (until November 25).
MOSCOW - A conference entitled, National responsibility sphere: authorities, church, business and society against drugs, overseen by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia.
KIEV - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's official visit to Ukraine (until November 25).
STRASBOURG - The 20th session of the Assembly of European Regions (until November 25). Russian representatives will attend.
November 25
MOSCOW - The awards ceremony of the annual national prize for contributions to the development of the Russian Internet domain (Runet-2005 prize) will be held.
MOSCOW - Celebrations of the 175th anniversary of Bauman Moscow State Technical University will be held.
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.
BARCELONA, SPAIN - The Mediterranean summit with representatives from 36 countries (until November 28).
November 28
BAGHDAD - The trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his seven accomplices will be resumed.
November 29
MOSCOW - A two-day session of the council of foreign and defense ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan).
MOSCOW - The third international forum entitled, Russian Natural Gas-2005 (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The first annual conference, The Russian market of collective investments (until November 30).
MOSCOW - The seventh annual Product of the Year awards ceremony.
MOSCOW - A national Serbian exhibition (until December 1).
DUSHANBE - The Russian National Exhibition (until December 2).
November 30
LONDON - The Sakhalin Oil and Natural Gas ninth conference (until December 1).
DECEMBER
December 1
MOSCOW - The second annual federal investment forum (until December 2).
December 2
MOSCOW - A roundtable on priorities of Russia's international scientific-technical and innovation cooperation.
YEREVAN - The Russian National Exhibition in Armenia (until December 5).
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A. - The Federal District Court of San Francisco will deliver a verdict on the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko.
December 4
MOSCOW - Elections to the Moscow City Duma and by-elections to the State Duma in two districts.
ASTANA - Presidential elections in Kazakhstan.
December 6
MOSCOW - The Russian Industry for the Oil and Natural Gas Complex specialized exhibition (until December 8).
LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA - The LIMA-2005 Asia-Pacific Air Show (until December 11).
December 7
MOSCOW - A conference on the strategy of state regulations in the sphere of natural and mineral resources.
MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA - An extraordinary summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
December 8
MOSCOW - The second international anti-terrorism media forum under the auspices of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (until December 10).
December 10
STOCKHOLM/OSLO - 2005 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
December 12
MALAYSIA - The Russia-ASEAN Summit (December 12-13).
GRAND CANARY, SPAIN - The international economic cooperation forum, Europe Meets China (until December 12).
December 13
MOSCOW - A ceremony titled "Russian corporate management leaders."
HONG KONG - The sixth ministerial session of the World Trade Organization.
December 14
MOSCOW - The ninth all-Russia exposition of national products (until December 19).
December 15
BAGHDAD - Parliamentary elections in Iraq.
December 17
MOSCOW - A congress of the Russian Pensioners' Party.
December 23
TYUMEN - The first leg of Kostya Tszyu's international professional boxing cup.
WARSAW - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski will conclude his term in office.
December 27
IVANOVO - Mikhail Men's inauguration ceremony as governor of the Central Russian region of Ivanovo.
