The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Armenia: The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Academy is scheduled to begin its work in Yerevan.
Belarus/Ukraine/Russia: Minks hosts a meeting of the three-party contact group (Ukraine-Russia-OSCE) set up to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.
EU/Iran: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton meets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Brussels to discuss a framework for renewed nuclear talks.
Iraq: The United Nations Human Rights Council holds a special session on the human rights situation in Iraq in Geneva.
Moldova/EU: Chisinau hosts an informal ministerial meeting of the Group for the European Action in Moldova.
Russia: The North Ossetian town of Beslan marks the 10th anniversary of a school hostage taking that left 334 people people -- including 186 children -- dead.
Russia/France: Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin visits Paris, meets with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur (to September 2).
UN: Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein assumes his functions as United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
Uzbekistan: Independence Day.
TUESDAY, September 2:
EU: European Parliament's Committee of Foreign Affairs (AFET) holds an exchange views on Ukraine in Brussels.
EU: European Parliament's Committee of Foreign Affairs (AFET) holds an exchange views with Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini in Brussels.
Slovakia/Ukraine: The Slovak company Eustream launches reverse gas supplies to Ukraine via the Vojany-Uzhgorod pipeline.
WEDNESDAY, September 3:
NATO: The Czech Republic hosts NATO military air exercise (to September 15).
Russia/Azerbaijan: Moscow hosts a friendly football match between the national teams of Russia and Azerbaijan.
Turkey/Azerbaijan: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Baku.
U.S./Baltic States: U.S. President Barack Obama visits Estonia, meets with Estonian President Hendrik Ilves, Latvian President Andris Berzins, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in Tallinn.
THURSDAY, September 4:
Kazakhstan/SCO: Astana hosts a meeting of the chairmen of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states.
Kyrgyzstan/CIS: A meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) interior ministers begins in Cholpon-Ata on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.
NATO: The United Kingdom hosts a NATO summit in Wales (to September 5).
FRIDAY, September 5:
EU/Russia: EU agricultural ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the consequences of Russia's import ban.
Russia: The 10th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival opens in Tatarstan (to September 11).
UK: London hosts a public inquiry hearing in the case of former Russian security-services officer Aleksandr Litvinenko.
SATURDAY, September 6:
EU/Russia/Ukraine: The next round of energy consultations between Ukraine, the European Union, and Russia is scheduled.
Georgia: U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is scheduled to visit Tbilisi.
SUNDAY, September 7:
Russia: The Russian Union of Journalists is expected to award its Anna Politkovskaya prize in Moscow.