February 2 preview

MOSCOW

* Deputy Federation Council Speaker Vasily Likhachev will meet with Uta Zapf, chairperson of Germany's parliamentary subcommittee for Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation (12.15 p.m., ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 26, tel. 692-18-77, 692-56-04)

* Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with first deputy chairman of the Crimean parliament, Serhiy Tsekov (3.00 p.m.)

* The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will host the eighth all-Russian conference. Security industry: perspectives, tendencies, problems (Noon, ul. Ilyinka, 6, tel. 620-02-34, 620-00-81, e-mail: lit@tpprf.ru)

* RIA Novosti (Zuvovsky Bulvar, 4, tel. (495) 637-50-19, 645-64-72) will host:

- A news conference by the head of Moscow department of the Federal Bailiffs Service, Ferdauis Yusupov (Noon);

- A news conference by Bulgaria's ambassador to Russia, Plamen Grozdanov, on the forthcoming Year of Bulgaria in Russia (3.00 p.m.)

* A news conference by Russia's ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, on current Russian-Ukrainian relations (Noon, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proezd, 1/23, tel. 786-67-88, 665-75-31)

* International Exhibition and Conference of IT and communications, CSTB-2009, will begin (until February 5, Crocus Expo exhibition complex)

* The Moscow District Military Court will continue the murder trial of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya

* Moscow's Simonovsky Court will hear a case of former Yukos president Vasily Aleksanyan

* A conference on the Georgian Diaspora in Russia will be held

SAMARA, Volga Area

* Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ will resume production

FAR EAST

* U.S. Deputy Chief of Diplomatic Mission in Russia Eric Rubin will pay a working visit (until February 6)

KHARKOV, Ukraine

* UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and chief of Ukraine's football association Hryhory Surkis will pay a visit

PRAGUE, Czech Republic

* PNA leader Mahmoud Abbas will pay a visit

BANGKOK, Thailand

* Exhibition, advanced technology from Russia (until February 5)

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