* Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorksy will arrive in Moscow on a two-day working visit.
* A session of the Council of Ministers of the Russia-Belarus Union will be held. It will focus on the 2006 union budget, the fuel and energy balance and the formation of a common system of tariff and non-tariff regulations.
* Russian presidential aide for EU relations Sergei Yastrzhembsky will hold a news conference on the development of relations with the European Union in 2005 (1:30 p.m.).
* The State Duma will host:
- an additional plenary session of the lower chamber (2:00 p.m.);
- a roundtable on human rights in the modern world organized by the LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) faction (2:00 p.m.).
* RIA Novosti will host the following news conferences:
- on the formation of the Star media group and the Armed Forces' single TV and radio broadcasting network (12:00 p.m.);
- on the situation in Iraq following the parliamentary elections (4:00 p.m.);
* The presentation of the Honor and Valor awards to the outstanding officers and servicemen of the Russian Interior Ministry will be held (5:00 p.m.). Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev will attend.
* An exhibition dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the Emergency Situations Ministry will open at the Polytechnic Museum (1:00 p.m.). Minister Sergei Shoigu will attend the opening ceremony.
* The Russian Federal Service for Financial Markets will organize the second session of the council of the heads of CIS state bodies for the regulation of securities markets (2:00 p.m.).
* An international two-day conference on the social integration of disabled people in the CIS will open (10:00 a.m.).
* Lomonosov Moscow State University will host a roundtable on Russia's intellectual resources (3:00 p.m.).
* A news conference on the topic, Do foreign banks threaten Russia's economic security?, will be held (12:00 p.m.).
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