February 5 - March 6 calendar

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FEBRUARY

February 5

MOSCOW - Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev will officially launch the Year of Bulgaria in Russia

KIEV, Ukraine - The Ukrainian government will present a report to the country's parliament

DAKAR, Senegal - Heads of UN peacekeeping missions in West Africa will meet

MOSCOW - The official opening ceremony of the Year of Bulgaria in Russia.

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman for Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla del Ponte will go on trial for leaking classified information

BERLIN - 59th International Berlin Film Festival (until February 15)

ISTANBUL, Turkey - An exhibition, WIN (World of Industry) - 2009 (until February 8)

SAPPORO, Japan - Snow festival (until February 11)

GAZA - Gaza militant groups are expected to join a ceasefire with Israel

PSKOV - 16th All-Russian Pushkin Theatre Festival (until February 10)

February 6

MOSCOW - Russian-Bulgarian business forum

MUNICH, Germany - Munich Security Conference will be held (until February 8)

MUNICH, Germany - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov will meet with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

February 7

MOSCOW - First round of the Fed Cup will be held (until February 8, Olimpiysky sports complex)

KAZAN, Tatarstan - 27th international Shalyapin Opera Festival (until February 20)

GERMANY - Ruslan Chagaev will makes his long awaited return to the boxing ring and face Carl Davis Drummond

MOSCOW - Second international exhibition of motor boats and yachts will be held (until February 15)

LA PAZ, Bolivia - A new constitution will come into force

February 8

ASTRAKHAN - First Caspian Innovation Forum will be held (until February 10)

BANGLADESH - Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukerjee will pay a visit (until February 9)

LOS ANGELES - 51st Grammy award ceremony

February 9

TOKYO, Japan - World Gastronomy Summit will be held (until February 11)

MOSCOW - CIS Metals Summit will be held

LUGANO, Switzerland - The International Association of Business Communications (IABC) will hold its annual conference, EuroComm 2009 (until February 10)

February 10

MOSCOW - International forum, Investment in the food market

SAMARA - 15th international specialized exhibition, Energy (until February 13)

UFA, southwestern Urals - First inter-banking congress of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) to discuss issues of information security (until February 14)

BERLIN, Germany - 12th European Police Congress (until February 11)

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - The space cargo ship Progress M-66 will lift off from the Baikonur Space Center to take supplies to the International Space Station

SANAA, Yemen - A regional conference on fighting piracy and drug trafficking in the Arabian and Red seas will be held (until February 11)

TBILISI / SUKHUMI - EU Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg will pay a visit (until February 14)

MOSCOW - Russia will ban meat imports from 10 U.S. producers

TEL-AVIV, Israel - Parliamentary elections

February 11

MOSCOW - A constitutive meeting of the Russian-Brazil Business Council

BANGALORE, India - An international aviation salon (until February 15)

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Proton-M rocket with two new Russian Express-series communications satellites will be launched

TBILISI - The OSCE chairwoman, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, will pay a visit to Georgia

CHICAGO - International car show (until February 22)

BETHLEHEM, West Bank - An inter-parliamentary Orthodox assembly will meet to discuss the role of traditional religions in seeking peaceful solutions to global and regional threats and conflicts (until February 14)

February 12

NEW DELHI, India - The Indian parliament will begin a new session

PRAGUE - International information summit (until February 13)

LOS-ANGELES - 40th award of NAACP Image Awards, an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature

U.S. - Test launch of the Discovery STS-119 shuttle

LONDON - 10th Russian ball, War and Peace

February 13

THAILAND - the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold a summit (until February 15)

VENICE, Italy - Annual carnival (until February 24)

ROME, Italy - A G7 meeting will be held

BRUSSELS - Third round of talks on a new Russia-EU deal

February 14

MOSCOW - The 11th round of the USSA FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup will be held at Moscow's Vorobyovy Gory

ROME, Italy - A meeting of G8 finance ministers will be held (until February 14)

February 15

TBILISI, Georgia - The mandate of the UN mission in Georgia will expire

February 16

LONDON, U.K. - International Petroleum (IP) Week (until February 19)

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The GS1 Global Forum 2009 will be held in the Crowne Plaza hotel (until February 20)

BRUSSELS, Belgium - A special meeting of EU biotechnology experts

BARCELONA, Spain - The GSMA Mobile World Congress, the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry, will be held

February 17

MOSCOW - Moscow's Presnensky Court will continue hearing Greenpeace's suit against Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor

GENEVA, Switzerland - A new round of talks on the situation in South Caucasus with the participation of the EU, OSCE, the UN, Russia, Georgia, the U.S., Abkhazia and South Ossetia (until February 18)

SANREMO, Italy - The San Remo Music Festival will be held (until February 21)

MOSCOW - Award ceremony of the "Doctor of the Year" prize

LONDON - 3rd Annual International Adam Smith Institute Russian Alternative Investment Forum (until February 19)

February 18

NALCHIK, Kabardino-Balkaria - The Supreme Court will hear the case of the October 2005 militant attack on Nalchik

LVOV, Ukraine - International exhibition, 'Power saving and renewable sources of energy'

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK - Russia's first plant producing liquefied natural gas will be launched

LONDON - Brit Awards ceremony

February 19

CHISINAU - Moldova's supreme court of appeals will hear the murder case of Russian NTV journalist Ilya Zimin, killed in Moscow in 2006

TIRASPOL, Transdnestr - Joint peacekeeping exercises of Russia, Moldova and Transdnestr

KRAKOW, Poland - NATO defense ministers will meet (until February 20)

CANADA - U.S. President Barack Obama will pay a visit

STRASBOURG, France - Czech President Vaclav Klaus will pay a visit

February 20

MOSCOW - Fifth annual forum of transport and logistics

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Proton carrier rocket will be launched

TSAKHKADZOR, Armenia - Sixth International Economic Forum "Bridge" (until February 23)

LONDON - Fashion week (until February 25)

February 22

LOS-ANGELES - The 81st Academy Awards - the 2009 Oscars - will be held

ABU DHABI, U.A.E. - An international defense exhibition and conference, IDEX-2009

PARIS, France - The Paris international agri-business exhibition, SIMA 2009, will begin

CAIRO - A new round of talks between Palestinian factions to form a national unity government

February 23

MOSCOW - Events to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day

BANGALORE, India - 18th International Engineering & Technology Fair (IETF' 09, until January 26)

February 24

MOSCOW - A business meeting of communication market leaders of Russia, CIS and Europe, Telecoms World Russia & CIS 2009 (until February 26).

KIEV, Ukraine - XIII international exhibition, "Kiev Build 2009" (until February 27)

February 25

MOSCOW - Third annual forum on International Financial Reporting Standards will be held

February 26

MOSCOW - An international conference of the Council of Europe member states will be held (until February 27)

MOSCOW - An international artistic gymnastics tournament, Grand Prix 2009 (until March 2, Luzhniki sports complex)

KRASNODAR - 19 th international construction forum, Southern architecture and construction forum (until March 1).

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Zenit carrier rocket with Telestar communications satellite will be launched

ISTANBUS - Second part of the WIN (World of Industry) - 2009 exhibition will be held

February 27

MOSCOW - Fourth annual conference, Media Business 2009

KRASNOYARSK - Sixth Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum (until February 28)

February 28

CAIRO - An international donor conference on rebuilding Gaza

MARCH

March 1

RUSSIA - Elections will be held in a number of Russian regions

LONDON - A festival of Russian culture, Maslenitsa

March 2

MOSCOW - Fifth annual conference, Charity in Russia

U.S. - SPAA Sports Photography Tour (until March 4)

March 3

LONDON - London's Islington's Hen and Chickens Theatre will premiere a musical, Obama On My Mind, inspired by the new President of the United States

BANGALORE, India - Green Energy Summit (until March 7)

HANNOVER, Germany - CeBIT-2009, one of the most important trade fairs for the digital industry, will begin

March 4

KHANTY-MANSIISK - An international gas chemistry forum, IGCF-2009 (until March 6)

March 5

GENEVA, Switzerland - An international car salon (until March 15)

LISBON, Portugal - MINDS International (Mobile Information and News Data Services) will hold a conference

BEIJING, China - Annual session of the National People's Congress will begin

DUBAI, UAE - Fifth World Rugby Championships (until March 7)

March 6

BANGKOK, Thailand - A Thai court will hear the extradition case of Russian national Viktor Bout, who is wanted by the United States

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