The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: International election observers hold press conference on the results of the October 12 general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
China/Russia: Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visits Moscow (to October 14).
EU: European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights meet in Brussels to discuss Iraq, Syria, and other human rights issues.
Russia/Azerbaijan: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visits Baku.
TUESDAY, October 14:
EU: Luxembourg hosts a meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
OSCE: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are scheduled to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan (to October 18).
China/Russia: Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Russia: European Court of Human Rights holds a hearing on the Beslan school siege and hostage taking, which took place on September 1-3, 2004.
UK: The Man Booker Prize winner announced in London.
UK/Georgia: Chatham House in London hosts a discussion titled "Abkhazia: Developments in the Domestic and Regional Context."
UN: The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Committee is scheduled to review Montenegro (to October 15).
U.S./Russia: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are scheduled to meet in Paris.
WEDNESDAY, October 15:
Iran: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold trilateral talks in Vienna over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
Iran: London hosts the Europe-Iran Business Forum (to October 16).
China/Italy: Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visits Rome and Milan (to October 17).
Russia: Russian writer and poet Mikhail Lermontov's 200th birthday anniversary.
THURSDAY, October 16:
EU: European Parliament's 2014 Sakharov Prize winner announced in Brussels.
Global: World Food Day.
Italy: Milan hosts the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit (to October 17).
Russia/Serbia: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Belgrade.
U.S./Afghanistan: The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington hosts a discussion titled "The Influence of Social Media and New Technologies in Afghanistan's Democracy."
FRIDAY, October 17:
SATURDAY, October 18:
Azerbaijan: Independence Day.