The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
EU: European Parliament's plenary session opens in Strasbourg (to December 18).
EU/Ukraine: Brussels hosts an EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting.
Kazakhstan: The prime ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states meet in Astana.
Russia: Human Rights Watch publishes its report on anti-LGBT violence in Russia.
Russia: Journalists’ Remembrance Day.
Ukraine: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk meets NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.
TUESDAY, December 16:
Kazakhstan: Independence Day.
EU: A meeting of the General Affairs Council opens in Brussels.
EU/Ukraine: European Policy Center in Brussels hosts a discussion with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about the priorities of the new Ukrainian government.
EU/Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini visits Kyiv.
Montenegro: Brussels hosts a EU-Montenegro Intergovernmental Conference.
Russia: Andreas Gross, one of the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Russia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), makes a fact-finding visit to Moscow (to December 18).
Serbia/China: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Belgrade to attend the third leaders' meeting of China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
Ukraine: The Visegrad Four countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary) foreign ministers meet with top Ukrainian government officials in Kyiv.
WEDNESDAY, December 17:
EU/Middle East: MEPs are scheduled to vote on a resolution on whether Palestine should be recognized as a state.
EU/Moldova: European Parliament holds discussion in Strasbourg and vote on the autonomous trade preferences for Moldova.
EU/Serbia: The second meeting of the Stabilization and Accession Council between Serbia and the EU opens in Brussels.
Iran: France, Russia, China, U.K., U.S., and Germany (P5+1 group) are scheduled to resume nuclear negotiations with Iran in Geneva.
Iran: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visits Tehran.
Ukraine: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko makes a state visit to Poland (to December 18).
THURSDAY, December 18:
EU: A meeting of the European Council begins in Brussels (to December 19).
EU/South Caucasus: Strasbourg hosts a meeting of the European Parliament's delegation to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
Czech Republic: The third anniversary of the death of Vaclav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, dissident, and first president of postcommunist Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic.
Russia: Russia President Putin holds his 10th annual major press conference in Moscow.
Serbia/France: Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic visits Paris, meets with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
FRIDAY, December 19:
Croatia/Turkey: Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic visits Ankara.
Russia/Serbia: Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic visits Moscow, meets with Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
SATURDAY, December 20:
SUNDAY, December 21:
Uzbekistan: Parliamentary Elections.