March 3 preview

MOSCOW

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

- A TV link between Moscow and Beijing, 'Economic crisis and reaction of the labor market' (10.00 a.m.);

- A TV link between Moscow and Washington, 'Information wars and conflicts' (5.00 p.m.)

* The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service will convene to sum up the results of its work in 2008 and outline tasks for 2009 (Prospekt Vernadskogo, 84, tel. (499) 252-10-63, 252-46-57, e-mail: press@fas.gov.ru).

* The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a meeting, 'Russia - the U.K. Olympic partnership'to coincide with the visit of a British business delegation to Russia (09.00 a.m., ul. Ilyinka, 6, tel. 956-73-84, e-mail: yulia.mochalova@fco.gov.uk)

* 12th meeting of retail companies in Russia, 'Trade in Russia' (10.00 a.m., Ritz-Carlton Hotel, ul. Tverskaya, 3, tel. (495) 916 58 78)

* Moscow's Arbitration Court will rule on whether to declare illegal a decision of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service concerning Gazprom Neft

* A roundtable on car thefts in Russia and ways of preventing such crimes (Noon, Skatertny Pereulok, 4/2, build. 1, tel. (495) 690-13-75, (495) 690-16-38, e-mail: tarasova@rosbalt.org)

* A news conference on the current flu outbreak in Russia (11.00, ul. Tverskaya, 18, tel. 645-61-35, 650-71-45, lat@izvestia.ru)

* Second scientific conference, 'I-Community 2009: Internet communities and social networks'

* The Federal Drug Control Service will convene to sum up the results of its work in 2008 and outline tasks for 2009

* Moscow's Khamovnichesky Court will begin hearings on the second case against Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev

* - A news conference to announce nominees of the Nika Award of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science (Granatny Pereulok, 9, e-mail olga-shmyrova2008@yandex.ru. Контактный телефон: 8-916-673-40-14)

HELSINKI, Finland

* Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev will attend a conference of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (the Helsinki Commission)

WASHINGTON, U.S.

* U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to discuss the global financial crisis and the situation in Afghanistan

ISRAEL

* U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay a visit

HANNOVER, Germany

* CeBIT-2009, one of the most important trade fairs for the digital industry, will begin (until March 8)

TRIPOLI, Libya

* Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will pay a visit

LONDON

* London's Islington's Hen and Chickens Theatre will premiere a musical, Obama On My Mind, inspired by the new U. S. president

BANGALORE, India

* Green Energy Summit (until March 7)

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