May 1 preview

MOSCOW

* Events to mark Spring and Labor Day:

- Moscow Federation of Trade Unions and the United Russia Party will hold a rally on Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya Streets (09.00 a.m., 10.00 a.m.)

- The A Just Russia Party will hold a rally on Trubnaya Square and Pushkin Square

- Russia's Communist Party will stage a rally on Kaluzhskaya Square (10.00 a.m.) and Teatralnaya Square

- Russia's ultranationalist LDPR Party will hold a rally near the Pushkin monument

- The liberal Yabloko party will hold a rally on Bolotnaya Square (1.00 p.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG

* International Equine Exhibition Ipposfera

BISHKEK

* The Kyrgyz ruling party Ak Zhol will hold a session to consider nominating the party's leader, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, for a second term

WASHINGTON

* Freedom House will present its 2009 report on press freedom

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