May 22 morning preview

MOSCOW

* The Russia-EU summit will continue

ASTANA, Kazakhstan

* CIS prime ministers will meet

MOSCOW

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

* RIA Novosti will host a news conference by Bolivia's Deputy Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez Araoz (11.00 a.m., Zubovsky bulvar, 4, tel.: (495) 645-65-24, 645-64-72)

* A conference. The World after 2008: New Strategies for Development and Success, will be held (Liningradfsky Prospekt, 32A, tel.: 684-12-48, 774-72-65, e-mail: conf@aginko.ru)

* Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky will be buried at the Novodevichye Cemetery (11.00 a.m.)

KISLOVODSK, South Russia

* A regional forum, Strategy 2020, will be held (10.00 a.m., ul. Kuybysheva, 66, tel.: 7 (918) 741-86-96)

ORSHA, Belarus

* Central Bank chiefs of Russia and Belarus, Sergei Ignatyev and Pyotr Prokopovich will meet

RUSSIA / HONG KONG

* A visa-free travel agreement between Russia and Hong Kong will come into force

OSLO, Norway

* A session of the NATO parliamentary assembly will be held

NEW DELHI

* India's new government, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will take office

SRI LANKA

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will pay a visit

DAMASCUS

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

WORLDWIDE

* The International Day for Biological Diversity is marked worldwide

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