February 3 morning preview

MOSCOW

* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev will pay a visit. He will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev

* The Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus will convene

* The Russian Government's anti-crisis commission chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, will convene

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

- A news conference by Russia's sports and tourism minister, Vitaly Mutko (11.00 a.m.);

- A presentation of a book by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (11.00 a.m.)

* An online news conference by Bulgaria's ambassador to Russia, Plamen Grozdanov, on Russian-Bulgarian relations (10.00 a.m., ul. Profsoyuznaya, 78, tel. 363-11-11)

* Cuban leader Raul Castro will meet with Patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia Kirill (6.30 p.m., ul. Volkhonka, 15, fax 637-43-18, e-mail press@patriarchia.ru)

* Patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia Kirill will meet with Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodor II (9.30 a.m.), Metropolitan of All Czechia and Slovakia Christopher (10.10 a.m.), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije (10.40 a.m.), Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland Leo (11.10) (Chisty Pereulok, 5, fax 637-43-18, e-mail press@patriarchia.ru)

* A news conference, 'North Caucasus in crisis and after the Georgian war' (Noon, ul. Prechistenka, 17/9, tel. 232-28-91)

* 19th international congress, 'Security and Safety Technologies', will be held (Crocus Expo exhibition center)

* The second congress of the Union of Georgians in Russia will be held (6.00 p.m., Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya, 52, build. 8, www.georgians.ru, tel. 920 52 15.)

SYKTYVKAR, Republic of Komi in northwest Russia

* A day to mourn the 23 victims of the January 31 fire in a care-home in the village of Podyelsk

TVER, northwest of Moscow

* Russian Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev will pay a working visit

GROZNY, Chechnya

* A conference of Chechnya's non-governmental organizations will be held

KIEV, Ukraine

* The fourth session of the Ukrainian parliament will open

PRAGUE, Czech Republic

* The parliament of the Czech Republic will meet to discuss the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty

BUDAPEST, Hungary

* Representatives of ten nations will discuss the Nabucco gas pipeline project

LONDON

* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will pay a visit (until February 4)

* Christie's and Sotheby's will hold sales of impressionist and modern art (until February 4)

BERLIN

* Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will pay a visit to attend an official opening ceremony of the Year of Kazakhstan in Germany

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