June 24 - July 25 calendar

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JUNE

June 24

NIGERIA / NAMIBIA / ANGOLA - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit (until June 26)

CAIRO, Egypt - Foreign Ministers of Arab states will meet to discuss Middle East peace settlement

MOSCOW - Third international socialist forum will be held

UNITED NATIONS - A summit of the UN General Assembly will be held (until June 26)

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security council will hold scheduled discussions on the Middle East

CHISINAU, Moldova - The Chisinau Appeal Chamber will hear the case of former defense minister Valery Passat

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) will hold a security forum (until June 25)

TUNISIA - 11th Carthage Investment Forum will be held (until June 25)

BERN, Switzerland - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a visit for talks with his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey

June 25

KAZAN - First international Islamic business and finance summit (until June 26)

BRYANSK - An international festival, Slavic Unity 2009 (until June 27)

TIRANA, Albania - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will pay a visit

GLASTONBURY, U.K. - Glastonbury music festival will be held

MOSCOW - Russia's Supreme Court will consider a protest against the acquittal of suspects in the murder case of investigative Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya

June 26

YEKATERINBURG - Chiefs of Eurasec tax authorities will meet

TATARSTAN - Russian truck maker Kamaz will hold an annual shareholders' meeting

June 27

CORFU ISLAND, Greece - An informal top-level OSCE meeting to discuss Russia's proposals on European security (until June 28)

CORFU ISLAND, Greece - A meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of foreign ministers (until June 28)

June 28

AZERBAIJAN - Israeli President Shimon Peres will pay a visit

GENEVA - The third session of a regional cooperation forum as part of Russia's economic and financial forum (until June 29)

June 29

MOSCOW - VTB will hold an annual shareholders' meeting

NORTH CAUCASUS - Caucasus-2009 military exercise will be held (until July 6)

June 30

MOSCOW - A Russian-Brazilian intergovernmental cooperation commission will hold a meeting at the level of prime ministers

MOSCOW - Norilsk Nickel will hold an annual shareholders' meeting

NEW YORK - A court will hear the General Motors bankruptcy case

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council will hold a session to discuss situation in Afghanistan and the UN mission in the country

July 1

RUSSIA - Russia will stop simplified citizenship procedure for residents of the CIS states

CANCUN, Mexico - An international summit on the A/H1N1 flu (until July 3)

ASTANA - Third meeting of world religious leaders will be held

SWITZERLAND - A regular round of consultations on security in the Caucasus

STOCKHOLM - Sweden will assume the rotating EU presidency

July 3

MOSCOW - The fourth European congress of pediatricians will be held (until July 6)

July 4

MONACO - The Tour de France cycling race will begin

July 5

BULGARIA - Parliamentary elections

CAIRO - Latest round of talks between Palestinian factions

July 6

MOSCOW - U.S. President Barack Obama will pay an official visit (until July 8)

July 8

ITALY - G8 summit

YEKATERINBURG - An international exhibition, Russian Expo Arms 2009

INDONESIA - Presidential elections

MOSCOW - Big Moscow International Beer Festival (until July 12)

July 10

MOSCOW - Autoexotic 2009, an exhibition of rare and vintage cars, will be held (until July 19)

TVER - Nashestviye 2009 rock festival will be held (until July 12)

ACCRA, Ghana - U.S. President Barack Obama will pay a visit

July 12

LITHUANIA - Lithuania's president-elect Dalia Grybauskaite will take oath

July 13

STRASBOURG - The European Parliament will hold a plenary session (until July 16)

July 14

MOSCOW - The end of a 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars

MUNICH - Ninth Petersburg Dialogue will be held (until July 16)

July 15

MOSCOW - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service will discuss the case against laptop producers Anar Inc., ASUSTeK Computer Inc., Toshiba Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Dell Inc.

SWEDEN - EU justice and interior ministers will meet

July 16

U.S. - Nominees of the 61th Emmy Awards will be announced

July 18

MOSCOW - Horse race for the prize of the Russian president

ROME - World swimming championships will be held (until August 2)

July 19

ST. PETERSBURG - U.S. pop star Britney Spears will perform for the first time in Russia as part of her Circus 2009 world tour

July 20

UKRAINE - First session of the Ukrainian-Libyan commission on economic cooperation (until July 21)

July 21

MOSCOW - U.S. pop star Britney Spears will perform as part of her Circus 2009 world tour

MANZHOU, China - Six Russian-Chinese scientific exhibition (until July 23)

July 22

U.K. - A charity London-Paris cycling race (until July 26)

July 23

SWEDEN - An informal meeting of EU energy ministers will be held (until July 24)

July 24

BAIKONUR - The Progress M-67 spacecraft will be lift off for the International Space Station

July 25

VLADIVOSTOK - Third Pacific Economic Congress will be held (until July 26)

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