April 9 preview

MOSCOW

* The Russian Government will hold a session to discuss an updated program of anti-crisis measures for 2009

* Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will visit Russia to discuss oil and other projects with Russian companies in Iraq (until April 11)

* State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov and president of France's National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, will speak at a session of the Russian-French inter-parliamentary assembly (9.30 a.m., ul. Okhotny Ryad, 1, tel. (495) 692-80-00)

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

- A TV link between Moscow and Beijing on creating a new global currency (10.00 a.m.);

- A news conference to announce seismology forecast for Russia (Noon);

- A news conference by the president of France's National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer (3.30 p.m.)

* A briefing by a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, on Russia's foreign policies (3.00 p.m., Smolenskaya-Sennaya Ploshchad, 32/34, e-mail briefingmid@rambler.ru, fax 8-(499)-244-41-12, tel.: 8-(499)-244-41-19)

* The Communist Party of Russia will hold a news conference to present the party's anti-crisis program (1.00 p.m., ul. 1 st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 2, tel.: 250-88-32)

* Fifth annual conference, 'Legal business in Russia' (9.30 a.m., Marriott Grand Hotel, ul. Tverskaya, 26, tel. tel.: (495) 232-32-00, until April 10)

RYAZAN

* The International Assembly of Capitals and Big Cities will hold a conference, 'Large city and pure water: experience, problems, solutions' (until April 10)

ABKHAZIA

* An international conference, 'Independent Abkhazia: the search for economic strategy,' will be held (until April 11)

KIEV, Ukraine

* A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headed by Ceyla Pazarbasioglu will resume its work

BAKU, Azerbaijan

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will pay a visit (until April 10)

GEORGIA

* The opposition will start protests demanding the resignation of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili

ALGIERS, Algeria

* Presidential elections will be held

SOUTH KOREA

* Joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises will begin (until April 20)

WASHINGTON, U.S.

* President Barack Obama will submit to the Congress a bill on U.S. military expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan

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