April 2 morning preview

LONDON

* G20 summit will be held

MOSCOW

* Sudanese special envoy Finance Minister Awad Ahmed al-Jaz will arrive in Moscow on a two-day visit to discuss President Omar al-Bashir's arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, as well as Sudanese-Russian relations. He is expected to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Mikhail Margelov, who heads the Federation Council's foreign affairs committee and is the president's special representative on Sudan.

* A news conference by Russian senators, Russia's migration policy: problems and perspectives. The legal aspect (Noon, Nikitsky Bulvar, 8A, tel. 697-98-43, 697-72-17).

* Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev will attend a session of the governmental commission on crime prevention (10.00 a.m., ul. Zhitnaya, 16, tel.: 667-54-33, 8-917-504-28-95)

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

- A news conference, How to solve Moscow's transport problem (2.00 p.m.);

- A news conference to sum up the economic results of the first quarter of 2009 and forecast Russia's economic situation in 2009-2010 (3.00 p.m.).

* A briefing by Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko on Russia's foreign policy (3.00 p.m., Smolenskaya-Sennaya Ploshchad, 32/34, e-mail briefingmid@rambler.ru, fax (499)-244-41-12, tel.: (499)-244-41-19)

* The Russian-Lebanese business council will convene (10.00 a.m., ul. Ilyinka, 6, tel.: 620-02-34, 620-01-86, e-mail: lit@tpprf.ru)

ST. PETERSBURG

* Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will pay a visit (until April 5)

* Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will meet with St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko

NAZRAN, Ingushetia

* A court will begin hearing the case in the death of opposition journalist Magomed Yevloyev

KIEV

* A business-forum, Ukraine-Russia - the dialog of effective strategic partnership

* An international conference, NATO 2009 summit: what it would mean for Ukraine

BRUSSELS

* A conference of state prosecutors on military crimes in the former Yugoslavia will be held (until April 3)

NEW DELHI

* Eighth international energy exhibition, POWER GEN India & Central Asia 2009 (until April 4)

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar

* A nationwide conference to prepare presidential elections will be held (until April 3)

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