May 9 - June 10 calendar

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MAY

May 9

RUSSIA - Russia celebrates Victory Day

MOSCOW - A Victory Day parade will be held on Red Square

MOSCOW - The Eurovision 2009 song contest will begin (until May 16)

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Early parliamentary elections will be held

SAUDI ARABIA - A regional conference on the prevention of swine flu

May 10

MANADO, Indonesia - World Ocean Conference 2009 will be held (until May 15)

UZBEKISTAN - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will pay a state visit (until May 12)

May 11

TOKYO - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit for talks with his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso (until May 13)

NEW YORK - UN Security Council will hold a ministerial meeting on Middle East

BELGRADE, Serbia - TECHNICAL FAIR 2009 will be held (until May 15)

U.S. - The Atlantis shuttle will be launched for an 11-day maintenance and repair mission of the Hubble telescope

May 12

MOSCOW - 21st International Exhibition for Telecommunications, Control Systems, IT and Communication Services, SVYAZ-EXPOCOMM'2009 (until May 15, Expocentr exhibition complex, www.svyazexpo.ru)

MOSCOW - An international conference of new technologies in TV and radio broadcasting, Moscow TeleShow, will be held

MOSCOW - An international forum on satellite navigation will be held

SOCHI - Mayor-Elect Anatoly Pakhomov will be inaugurated

BEIJING, China - Fourth Russian-Chinese financial and banking forum will be held (until May 17)

MADRID, Spain - A meeting of the Council of Europe's ministerial committee

TATARSTAN - Russian truck maker Kamaz will restart its production line

TOKYO - Russian and Japanese governors will meet

NEW YORK - The 68th Annual Peabody Awards

May 13

MOSCOW - First MICEX Financial congress will be held (until May 14)

SWITZERLAND - The cities to host final matches of Euro-2012 in Poland and Ukraine will be chosen

CANNES, France - The 62nd Cannes International Film Festival will open (until May 24)

INDIA - Fifth round of general elections will be held

May 14

MINSK - CIS education ministers' meeting and a session of the Council on cooperation in education will be held (until May 15)

PRAGUE - 16th Congress of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES) (until May 16)

AFRICA - A mission of the UN Security Council will visit Ethiopia, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Liberia (until May 21)

NOVOSIBIRSK, West Siberia - Russian chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko will chair an international conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to discuss joint efforts in preventing infectious diseases (until May 15)

KAZAN, Tatarstan - An international conference on medical waste disposal under the aegis of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (until May 15)

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Proton-M carrier rocket with ProtoStar-2 telecommunications satellite will be launched

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - The CIS foreign ministries will hold consultations on migration issues (until May 15)

VIENNA, Austria - Second international conference, 'Russia - the EU - cooperation of air carriers' (until May 15, tel.: (495) 626-53-29, 797-75-28, e-mail: events@ato.ru)

May 15

MINSK, Belarus - A conference of Eurasec education ministers will be held

ST. PETERSBURG - Second international ecology congress will be held

LONDON - Annual meeting and business forum of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (until May 16)

May 16

MOSCOW - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a brief working visit to Russia

MOSCOW - Final of the Eurovision 2009 song contest (10.00 p.m.)

May 17

RIGA, Lithuania - First round of presidential elections will be held

May 18

MOSCOW - The first round of full-format Russia-U.S. talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty will be held (until May 20)

GENEVA, Switzerland - A new round of Geneva talks on the Caucasus will be held (until May 19)

YOSHKAR OLA, Russia's Republic of Mari El - Seventh open all-Russian conference on teaching information technology in Russia (until May 19)

May 19

MINSK, Belarus - Fifth international exhibition of weaponry and military equipment, MILEX-2009 (until May 22)

BERLIN - Fourth international conference, Russia - European Union Energy Dialogue: Gas Aspect

BRUSSELS - A ministerial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council will be held

BANGKOK, Thailand - The last court session on the extradition case of Russian suspected arms trader Viktor Bout

May 20

PRAGUE - A China-EU summit will be held

ANKARA - The Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation will meet (until May 22)

May 21

GOMEL, Belarus - Economic forum

MOSCOW - The World Association of Major Metropolises will hold a session (until May 24)

KHABAROVSK - Russia-EU summit will open (until May 22)

ITALY - G8 economic development ministers will meet (until May 23)

MINSK - The 50th meeting of the council on railway transport of CIS and Baltic states (until May 22)

May 22

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - CIS prime ministers will meet

RUSSIA / HONG KONG - A visa-free travel agreement between Russia and Hong Kong will come into force

DAMASCUS - The 36th conference of foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (until May 25)

May 23

ROME, Italy - The first Russian Orthodox church in Rome will open

May 24

ROME, Italy - The G8 energy ministers will meet (until May 25)

May 25

MOSCOW - Third annual conference on the banking retail sector

MOSCOW - Education week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries and the forum of SCO rectors

May 26

MOSCOW - Ninth all-Russian conference of small and medium-sized businesses

MOSCOW - An international business forum, LTE Russia & CIS 2009 (until May 27)

MOSCOW - 18th International Chekhov Theater Festival will open

May 27

ST. PETERSBURG - The opening ceremony of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library will be held

SOCHI - Fourth international railway business forum, Strategic Partnership 1520 (until May 29)

ROME - UEFA Champions League final

U.K. - Booker Prize winner will be announced

EGYPT - The International Anti Piracy Summit will be held (until May 29)

MOSCOW - The founding session of the Russian-Belarusian business council will be held

May 28

MINSK - A meeting of the Eurasia coordination council

MINSK - A meeting of CIS security and special services' chiefs

VIENNA, Austria - OPEC will hold a ministerial meeting

WASHINGTON - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama

ITALY - A conference of G8 justice and interior ministers will be held

May 31

KISLOVODSK, South Russia - Early mayor elections in the Russian spa city will be held

LOS-ANGELES - MTV Movie Awards 2009 ceremony will be held

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry will hold its 23rd meeting (until June 1)

JUNE

June 1

NEW YORK - The UN General Assembly will convene to discuss financial and economic issues (until June 3)

BONN - Second round of the UN climate change forum will be held

June 3

DENMARK - The Council of the Baltic Sea States will hold a ministerial meeting (until June 4)

MALAYSIA - The sixth world congress of trade and industrial chambers (until June 5)

June 4

ST. PETERSBURG - St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2009 (until June 6)

June 5

ST. PETERSBURG - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will address the International Economic Forum

June 6

ST. PETERSBURG - St. Petersburg will host the World Grain Forum on June 6-7 to discuss future global production in the light of food security issues

VENICE, Italy - 53rd exhibition of modern art will open

June 7

MOSCOW - National bestseller-2009 award ceremony

SOCHI - Kinotavr film festival will open (until June 14)

June 10

МОSCOW - The Russian Public Chamber will host an all-Russian conference on juvenile justice

HELSINKI - World cup qualifier between Russia and Finland

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