The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Afghanistan/NATO: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah visit Brussels, meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
EU: Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk takes over as president of the European Council.
EU: European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee hosts a discussion wtih EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and neighborhood and enlargement negotiation commissioner Johannes Hahn in Brussels.
Georgia: The 15th Tbilisi International Movie Festival begins (to December 7).
Turkey/Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Ankara, meets with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
UN: World AIDS Day.
U.S./Iran: Wilson Center in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Iran Nuclear Extension: Key to Deal or an Empty Room?"
U.S./Russia: Brookings Institution in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Putin and Russian Power in the World: The Stalin Legacy."
U.S./Ukraine: Heritage Foundation in Washington hosts a discussion titled "The Battle for Eastern Ukraine."
Uzbekistan/U.S.: Tashkent hosts U.S.-Uzbekistan annual bilateral consultations (to December 2).
TUESDAY, December 2:
Afghanistan/EU: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets with European Parliament President Martin Schulz and European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels.
EU: Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky joins the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee for a debate on the human rights situation in Russia.
EU: European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee holds an exchange of views with the foreign ministers of the countries of the Western Balkans on enlargement progress reports.
Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev visits Ashgabat.
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev visits Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar (to December 8).
NATO: Brussels hosts a NATO foreign ministers meeting.
U.S./Ukraine: Elliott School for International Affairs in Washington hosts a discussion titled "The Political and Media Situation in Ukraine: A View from Inside."
WEDNESDAY, December 3:
Afghanistan: British Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani host international donors' conference on Afghanistan in London (to December 4).
EU: EU Subcommittee on Security and Defense hosts a discussion on the security situation in the South Caucasus after the signature of the "strategic partnership" between Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
EU/Ukraine: European Parliament President Martin Schulz meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Brussels.
Global: Transparency International releases its annual Corruption Perceptions Index report.
Russia/Sudan: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov makes an official visit to Sudan.
THURSDAY, December 4:
EU: EU Human Rights Subcommittee holds a hearing on human rights and the situation of minorities in Ukraine with a special focus on Crimea.
Global: Freedom House publishes its Freedom on the Net 2014 report.
OSCE: Basel hosts an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting (to December 5).
Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers the annual Address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.
U.S./Kazakhstan: Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Kazakh security policy and its position as a vanguard for East-West cooperation."
FRIDAY, December 5:
EU/Bosnia-Herzegovina: EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and neighborhood and enlargement negotiation commissioner Johannes Hahn visit Sarajevo.
Kazakhstan/France: French President Francois Hollande makes an official visit to Astana (to December 6).
Russia/HRW: Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director Kenneth Roth meets with Russian Presidential Adviser and Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov in Moscow.