May 13 preview

MOSCOW

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with China's top legislator, Wu Bangguo

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to meet with Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and parliamentary Speaker Damdiny Demberel

MOSCOW

* The Federation Council will hold its 247th session (ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 26, tel. 692-18-77, 692-75-25)

* Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with China's top legislator, Wu Bangguo (3.00 p.m.);

* The Russian-Chinese inter-parliamentary cooperation commission will hold its third session (3.45 p.m.)

* The State Duma will hold a plenary session (10.00, ul. Okhotny Ryad, 1, tel.: (495) 692-80-00)

* Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Angolan counterpart Assuncao Dos Anjos

* The state commission on the prevention of swine flu in Russia will convene

* RIA Novosti (Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel.: (495) 645-65-24, 645-64-72) will host:

- A roundtable on Russia's first international summit of Islamic business and finances to be held in June 2009 in Kazan

- A TV link between Moscow and Mexico on the situation with the A/H1N1 virus in Mexico (6.00 p.m.).

* First MICEX Financial congress will be held (until May 14, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, ul. Tverskaya, 3, tel.: 705-96-09, e-mail: pr@micex.com)

* An international conference of new technologies in TV and radio broadcasting, Moscow TeleShow, will be held (2.00 p.m., Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya, 14, tel.: (495) 955-79-67)

ST. PETERSBURG

* The parliamentary assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will convene

KIEV, Ukraine

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will meet with Finnish President Tarja Halonen

VILNIUS

* The Lithuanian government will discuss an economic stimulus plan

CANNES, France

* The 62nd Cannes International Film Festival will open (until May 24)

SWITZERLAND

* The Ukrainian and Polish cities to host Euro 2012 games will be chosen

UNITED NATIONS

* The UN Security Council will convene to discuss the North Korean rocket launch

WASHINGTON

* The U.S. Congress will discuss the 2010 military budget

INDIA

* Fifth round of general elections will be held

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