* Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with his Armenian counterpart, Robert Kocharyan.
KRASNOYARSK
* Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will visit the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
MOSCOW
* The Economic Development and Trade Ministry will host an international conference on the implementation of the presidential program for the training of managers of Russia's economic organizations in 2004-2005 and its further development strategy (2:30 p.m.). Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Andrei Sharonov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko and others will attend.
* Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko will chair the 27th session of the CIS Economic Council for deputy prime ministers.
* The Federation Council (parliament's upper house) will host:
- a plenary session of the nationwide conference on the legislative aspects and problems of cooperation development with Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov, Deputy Agriculture Minister Igor Rudenya, etc. (10:00 a.m.);
- a news conference with Federation Council Deputy Speaker Mikhail Nikolayev on the legislative aspects and problems of cooperation development (2:00 p.m.).
* A session of the State Duma will be held. The lower chamber will consider amendments to the laws on joint stock companies, on political parties, on the Central Bank of Russia, on banks and banking activities and to the tax and land codes.
* A congress of the Business Russia public organization will be held (12:00 p.m.). More than 100 delegates will focus on the business role in the implementation of national projects.
* RIA Novosti will host a news conference with Igor Zotov, the chairman of the organizing committee for the seventh congress of the Russian Pensioners Party (12:00 p.m.). He has been nominated for the post of party chairman.
* The President Hotel will host the third plenary session of the Eurasian Group against money laundering and the financing of terrorism (9:00 a.m.). The group comprises Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
* The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will host an international conference on Russia's transportation strategy (10:00 a.m.).
* Grigory Balykhin, the head of the Federal Education Agency, will give an online news conference on the implementation of the national project Education (3:00 p.m.).
* President of Russia's diamond giant Alrosa Alexander Nichiporuk will give a news conference on the results of the year (12:00 p.m.).
* Vladimir Ispravnikov, the head of the Ecological Examination Institute, will give a news conference on the prevention of an ecological catastrophe in the Amur River and on the Sakhalin shelf (12:00 p.m.).
* The Central House of Journalists will host:
- a news conference on the topic, Does Russian need migration amnesty? (11:00 a.m.);
- a presentation of programs of the Youth Achievements movement (3:00 p.m.).
* The Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography will host a news conference on the 150th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery (1:00 p.m.).
NOVY URENGOI
* First Deputy Prime Minister and Gazprom Board Chairman Dmitry Medvedev will hold a conference on gasification.
KHABAROVSK
* Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Viktor Ishayev will hold a session of the territorial emergency situations commission on the possible pollution of the Amur River.
UFA
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will hold a session of the organizing committee for the celebration of the 450th anniversary of Bashkiria's accession to Russia.
TBILISI
* Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin will arrive in Georgia on a two-day routine visit. He will attend the sixth session of the Russian-Georgian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation.
BAKU
* Co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for Nagorny Karabakh Steven Mann of the United States, Bernard Fassier from France and Russia's Yury Merzlyakov will visit Baku to discuss resolving the Nagorny Karabakh conflict with the Azerbaijani leadership.
HONG KONG
* Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref will arrive in Hong Kong to attend the sixth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization. The Russian delegation will begin the active phase of bilateral talks on Russia's accession to the WTO.
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