March 4 - April 5 calendar

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MARCH

March 4

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

PARIS - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will pay a visit

SOUTH AFRICA - A festival of Russian culture will open

MOSCOW - The Russia's state anti-drug committee will convene

U.S. - U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown will address U.S. Congress

MOSCOW - Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov will meet with the head of Mongolia's national security council, Manibadrakhyn Ganbold

MOSCOW - A business forum, 'Serbia's investment perspectives. Objects of privatization'

VILNIUS, Lithuania - The head of the European Investment Fund, Richard Pelly, will pay a a visit for talks with the country's leadership

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - The International Criminal Court will issue a decision on Sudan's President Omar el-Bashir

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)

BRUSSELS - Foreign ministers of NATO member states will meet

CAPE CANAVERAL, U.S. - NASA will launch its Kepler mission to search for planets with Earth-like conditions

MOSCOW - Education and Career Exhibition - 21st century (until March 7)

March 6

MOSCOW - Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev will meet with Moldova's ambassador to Russia, Andrei Neguta

GENEVA - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

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

CURITIBA, Brazil - Russian team will take part in the first two rounds of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship (until March 8)

TURIN - European athletics championships

March 7

MOSCOW - Final of Russia's national beauty pageant, Miss Russia 2009

MOSCOW - Snowboard world cup event

March 8

WORLDWIDE - International Women's Day

March 9

ANKARA, Turkey - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay a visit

ROME - Pope Benedict XVI will attend a session of the Rome city council

LONDON - FT Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference (until March 10)

March 10

MOSCOW - Moscow's Arbitration court will consider a 22.5-million suit by Russia's Federal Customs Service against Bank of New York Mellon.

MAKHACHKALA, Daghestan - Public hearings on human rights in Russia's North Caucasus republics (until February 11)

CANNES, France - A conference on Russia's real estate market as part of the 20th international exhibition, MIPIM 2009

LAS VEGAS, U.S. - Aviation Industry Expo 2009 (until March 12)

MOSCOW - A Russian-Guatemalan seminar on trade, economic and investment cooperation

March 11

BRAZIL - Prince Charles will pay a visit to discuss climate change

MOSCOW - Russian truck maker Kamaz will hold an emergency shareholders' meeting

BERLIN - International travel exhibition, ITB (until March 15)

March 12

MOSCOW - An annual conference of oil and gas industry supply chain, Neftegazsnab

NEW YORK - Award ceremony of the National Book Critics Circle

MINSK - A plenum of the CIS Economic Court will convene (until March 13)

March 13

MOSCOW - The CIS Economic Council will convene (1.00 p.m., President Hotel, ul. Bolshaya Yakimanka, 24)

March 14

KALININGRAD - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will pay a visit (until March 15)

LONDON - G20 finance ministers will meet

JAPAN - Japan will send its ships to Somalia's waters

March 15

ZURICH - Eighth session of the Russian economic and financial forum in Switzerland (until March 16)

March 16

MOSCOW - Fifth annual logistics forum

MOSCOW - Fifth international Moscow congress on biotechnologies (until March 20)

PLESETSK - Russian Rockot carrier vehicle with Europe's first GOCE satellite on board will be launched

MOSCOW - Fifth international biotechnology congress will open (until March 20)

March 17

YAOUNDE, Cameroon / LUANDA, Angola - Pope Benedict XVI will pay a visit (until March 23)

March 18

ST. PETERSBURG - Ninth international ecology forum

BAKU, Azerbaijan - A referendum on constitutional amendments

NEW YORK - Media Summit (until March 19)

March 19

MOSCOW - An all-Russian forum of business media

March 21

BRATISLAVA - Slovakian presidential elections

STUTTGART - WBC Heavyweight World Champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Juan Carlos Gomez of Cuba

March 22

MACEDONIA - Presidential elections

HYDERABAD - the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum will be held

March 23

BRUSSELS - International donors' conference on modernizing Ukraine's gas transmission system

STRASBOURG - European Parliament plenary session

BRUSSELS - An international donor conference on modernizing Ukraine's gas transit system

March 24

MOSCOW - Third annual conference on electric power market (Ritz-Carlton hotel)

TALLINN - Tallinn district court will consider an appeal against acquittal of Bronze Soldier defenders

March 25

ST. PETERSBURG - Second international MPExpo-2009 (Modern equipment and advanced technologies for power industry)

MINSK - Session of Joint Consultative Commission on Disarmament

March 26

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, will chair a European Business Summit (until March 27)

PARIS, France - First Meeting of States Parties to the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

March 27

MOSCOW - The Russian Public Chamber will hold a plenary session on Russia's economic strategy amid the global financial crisis

MOSCOW - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will hold a special conference on Afghanistan

MOSCOW - Second annual conference, Aviaforum 2009 (Marriott Grand Hotel)

ST. PETERSBURG - A Russian-German forum to discuss the global financial crisis and commodity issues (until March 28)

March 28

MOSCOW - Russia will meet Azerbaijan in a 2010 World Cup qualifier

March 29

ROME - A meeting of G8 labor ministers

PODGORICA, Montenegro - Early parliamentary elections

March 30

ST. PETERSBURG - An inter-parliamentary conference, Nord Stream: parliamentary dimension (until March 31)

VIENNA, Austria - An international IAEA symposium on nuclear security (until April 3)

DOHA, Qatar - Arab League summit

APRIL

April 1

LICHTENSTEIN - Russia will meet Lichtenstein in a 2010 World Cup qualifier

April 2

LONDON - G20 summit

MINSK - The Belarusian parliament will consider recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

April 3

MOSCOW - Nika award ceremony

GERMANY / FRANCE - NATO summit (until April 4)

April 4

MOSCOW - Winners of Russia's state award in modern art will be announced

April 5

MOLDOVA - Presidential elections

CZECH REPUBLIC - U.S. President Barack Obama will pay a visit

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