January 22 preview

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay a state visit (until January 23) and hold talks with Uzbek President Islam Karimov

MOSCOW

* The Russian-Cuban intergovernmental commission will be held (until January 23) (10:00 a.m., ul. Vozdvizhenka, 16)

* Heads of parliamentary delegations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will meet (11:00 a.m., Ul. Varvarka, 7, tel. 698-77-75, 698-36-02, odkb@gov.ru).

* RIA Novosti will host a news conference on the victory of the Team Kamaz-Master in Dakar Rally 2209 (Noon, Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel. (495) 637-50-19, 645-64-72)

* A news conference by the Palestinian ambassador to Russia, Afif Safieh, on Russian-Palestinian relations and situation in the Middle East (Noon, Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proezd, 1/23, tel. 786-67-88, 665-75-34)

* A news conference by members of the Russian Public Chamber, "Holocaust - memory and prevention. Problems of xenophobia, intolerance, extremism and Nazi rehabilitation in Russia and the modern world." (2:00 p.m., Ul. 1905 Goda, 7, tel. (495) 250-77-49, e-mail: sos@mk.ru)

* Opening ceremony of the international music festival, Days of Mozart in Moscow (until January 24, 7:00 p.m.)

IRKUTSK

* Mongolian Prime Minister Sanjaa Bayar will meet with Russian Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev and the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko

MOLDOVA

* Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu will pay a visit

AZERBAIJAN

* Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov will pay a visit

PRAGUE

* EU social affairs ministers will meet (until January 24)

CAIRO

* Israeli-Palestinian talks will be held

LOS ANGELES

* This year's Oscar nominations will be announced

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