The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, February 13:
Armenia: NATO Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visits Yerevan.
Ukraine: Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) Volodymyr Lytvyn pays an official visit to Luxembourg (to February 14).
UNESCO: World Radio Day.
TUESDAY, February 14:
Georgia: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili delivers his annual state of the nation address in the parliament.
Iran: Iranian opposition to hold silent rallies in Tehran and other Iranian cities.
Macedonia: Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov begins his visit to The Netherlands (to February 15).
Kosovo: Serbs in northern Kosovo are scheduled to vote in a referendum (to February 15).
Ukraine: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Kostyantyn Hryshchenko hold a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod.
World: Valentine's Day.
WEDNESDAY, February 15:
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to visit NATO headquarters in Brussels to meet with the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and to address the North Atlantic Council.
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Austria, meets with the Austrian President Heinz Fischer (to February 16).
THURSDAY, February 16:
Afghanistan: The Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners on drugs from Afghanistan to be held in Vienna.
CIS: Dubai hosts the second Russia & CIS Executive Summit on oil and gas (to February 17).
Georgia: Tbilisi hosts a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish business forum.
Georgia: Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarch Catholicos Ilya II to visit Jerusalem.
EU: The situation in Russia and death penalty Belarus to be discussed in a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Moldova: First meeting of the Moldovan parliament's spring session to take place in Chisinau.
Pakistan: Islamabad to host a trilateral summit of presidents of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (to February 17).
FRIDAY, February 17:
Russia: Seventh International Sretensky Orthodox Film Festival opens in Obninsk (to February 22).
Russia: Sochi hosts the Valdai Discussion Club Middle East section’s conference titled “Transformation in the Arab World and Russia’s Interests” (to February 18).
SATURDAY, February 18:
Latvia: A national referendum on making Russian a state language alongside Latvian to be held.
SUNDAY, February 19:
Turkmenistan: National Flag Day.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, February 13:
Armenia: NATO Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visits Yerevan.
Ukraine: Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) Volodymyr Lytvyn pays an official visit to Luxembourg (to February 14).
UNESCO: World Radio Day.
TUESDAY, February 14:
Georgia: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili delivers his annual state of the nation address in the parliament.
Iran: Iranian opposition to hold silent rallies in Tehran and other Iranian cities.
Macedonia: Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov begins his visit to The Netherlands (to February 15).
Kosovo: Serbs in northern Kosovo are scheduled to vote in a referendum (to February 15).
Ukraine: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Kostyantyn Hryshchenko hold a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod.
World: Valentine's Day.
WEDNESDAY, February 15:
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to visit NATO headquarters in Brussels to meet with the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and to address the North Atlantic Council.
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Austria, meets with the Austrian President Heinz Fischer (to February 16).
THURSDAY, February 16:
Afghanistan: The Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners on drugs from Afghanistan to be held in Vienna.
CIS: Dubai hosts the second Russia & CIS Executive Summit on oil and gas (to February 17).
Georgia: Tbilisi hosts a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish business forum.
Georgia: Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarch Catholicos Ilya II to visit Jerusalem.
EU: The situation in Russia and death penalty Belarus to be discussed in a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Moldova: First meeting of the Moldovan parliament's spring session to take place in Chisinau.
Pakistan: Islamabad to host a trilateral summit of presidents of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (to February 17).
FRIDAY, February 17:
Russia: Seventh International Sretensky Orthodox Film Festival opens in Obninsk (to February 22).
Russia: Sochi hosts the Valdai Discussion Club Middle East section’s conference titled “Transformation in the Arab World and Russia’s Interests” (to February 18).
SATURDAY, February 18:
Latvia: A national referendum on making Russian a state language alongside Latvian to be held.
SUNDAY, February 19:
Turkmenistan: National Flag Day.