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MOSCOW

* Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev will hold a session of the ministry's board on the ministry's activities in 2005 and plans for 2006 (1:00p.m.).

* Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref will deliver a report on the economics of knowledge in Russia (1:00p.m.).

* The Federation Council (parliament's upper house) will host parliamentary hearings on the implementation of the law on the replacement of social benefits in-kind with cash payments and other issues (11:00a.m.).

* A session of the State Duma will be held (10:00a.m.). The lower house will consider ratification of a number of international agreements, the law on special economic zones, amendments to the tax code, etc. Speaker Boris Gryzlov will deliver a report on the results of the Duma's fall session.

* The last 42 members of the Russian Public Chamber will be elected (11:00a.m.).

* A news conference on Russian-Ukrainian relations in the natural gas sphere will be held with Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev, chairman of the Federation Council international affairs committee Mikhail Margelov and chairman of the State Duma committee for the CIS and compatriot affairs Andrei Kokoshin (2:00p.m.).

* The 11th congress of the Russian Green Ecological Party dedicated to the party's results and new strategy will be held (12:00p.m.).

* Russian Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Vladimir Starodubov will hold a session on the implementation of the priority national project Health (10:00 a.m.).

* A news conference on the upcoming hockey tournament during the Winter Olympics in Turin will be held (1:00p.m.).

NOVOSIBIRSK

* Presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District Anatoly Kvashnin will hold a session on the implementation of the national project on the development of the agro-industrial complex in Siberia.

TYUMEN

* The first leg of Kostya Tszyu's international professional boxing cup will take place.

WARSAW

* Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski will conclude his term in office.

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