March 24 preview

MOSCOW

* Turkmen President Gurganguly Berdymukhammedov will begin his state visit to Russia (until March 25)

* Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere will pay a visit to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (until March 25)

* The presidium of the Russian economics ministry will convene to sum up the results of the ministry's work in 2008 and outline tasks for 2009 (10.00 a.m., ul. 1 st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 1, tel.: (495) 650-81-79; 650-85-48)

* Russian economics minister, Elvira Nabiullina, will meet with representatives of the all-Russia public organization of small and medium-sized businesses, Opora Rossii (5.00 p.m., Staraya Ploshchad, 6, tel. (495) 788-44-93)

* RIA Novosti will host a news conference, 'A new vision of the future of civilizations: the global crisis was inevitable, predictable and necessary' (16.00 p.m., Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel. (495) 637-50-19, 645-64-72)

* The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will host a founding session of the Russian-Chilean business council (10.00 p.m., tel. 620-02-34, 620-01-86, e-mail: lit@tpprf.ru).

* A news conference by the head of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), Valery Fedorov, 'State and financial institutions: a crisis of trust?' (11.00 a.m., ul. 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 2, tel. 250-88-32)

* Third annual conference on electric power market (10.00 a.m., Ritz-Carlton hotel, tel. (495) 232-32-00)

* The coordination council of heads of anti-drug agencies of CSTO member states will convene (Leningradsky Prospekt, 41, e-mail odkb@gov.ru, fax 606-06-18)

PRAGUE, Czech Republic

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will pay a state visit (until March 25)

STOCKHOLM

* Hearings on a suit by Swiss gas intermediary RosUkrEnergo against Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz will begin

WASHINGTON

* The second televised news conference of U.S. President Barack Obama on anti-crisis measures will be held

LONDON

* Heads of leading U.S., Japanese and European banks will discuss financial issues

* Amnesty International will publish its annual report on global death penalty statistics for 2008

JAKARTA, Indonesia

* Russia's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer will arrive on a friendly visit (until March 28)

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