The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
MONDAY, February 21:
Azerbaijan: Lithuania’s Special Representative for Protracted Conflicts Giedrius Cekuolis visits Baku to discuss ways to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
EU: Brussels hosts a meeting of the EU foreign ministers with Bosnia-Herzegovina, the South Caucasus, and the Middle East on the agenda.
Kazakhstan: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev visits China (to February 23).
Pakistan: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visits Japan (to February 23).
Russia: Trial of suspects in the Markelov-Baburova murder case is scheduled to begin in Moscow.
Serbia: UN chief war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz visits Belgrade.
TUESDAY, February 22:
Armenia/OSCE: Presentation of analytical country report on Armenian civil society to be held in Yerevan.
Serbia: Contempt trial of Serbian nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj begins in The Hague.
World: International Energy Forum (IEF), the world’s largest gathering of energy ministers, opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
WEDNESDAY, February 23:
Armenia: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon visit Yerevan (to February 24).
Azerbaijan/Ukraine: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov visits Kyiv.
Iran: Kerman hosts its first International Clean Energy Conference.
THURSDAY, February 24:
GUAM: Foreign ministers of the GUAM countries (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) meet in Kyiv.
OSCE: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe holds its plenary session in Vienna (to February 25).
Russia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits EU headquarters with a strong government delegation.
Russia: Russia chooses its Person of the Year 2010.
Russia: Spain's royal family visits St. Petersburg (to February 25).
Ukraine: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen pays a one-day visit to Kyiv.
FRIDAY, February 25:
Georgia/Czech Republic: Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Prague.
Russia/Armenia: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with President of Armenia Serzh Sarkisian in St. Petersburg.
SATURDAY, February 26:
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan commemorates the Khojaly tragedy of 1992.
MONDAY, February 21:
Azerbaijan: Lithuania’s Special Representative for Protracted Conflicts Giedrius Cekuolis visits Baku to discuss ways to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
EU: Brussels hosts a meeting of the EU foreign ministers with Bosnia-Herzegovina, the South Caucasus, and the Middle East on the agenda.
Kazakhstan: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev visits China (to February 23).
Pakistan: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visits Japan (to February 23).
Russia: Trial of suspects in the Markelov-Baburova murder case is scheduled to begin in Moscow.
Serbia: UN chief war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz visits Belgrade.
TUESDAY, February 22:
Armenia/OSCE: Presentation of analytical country report on Armenian civil society to be held in Yerevan.
Serbia: Contempt trial of Serbian nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj begins in The Hague.
World: International Energy Forum (IEF), the world’s largest gathering of energy ministers, opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
WEDNESDAY, February 23:
Armenia: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon visit Yerevan (to February 24).
Azerbaijan/Ukraine: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov visits Kyiv.
Iran: Kerman hosts its first International Clean Energy Conference.
THURSDAY, February 24:
GUAM: Foreign ministers of the GUAM countries (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) meet in Kyiv.
OSCE: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe holds its plenary session in Vienna (to February 25).
Russia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits EU headquarters with a strong government delegation.
Russia: Russia chooses its Person of the Year 2010.
Russia: Spain's royal family visits St. Petersburg (to February 25).
Ukraine: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen pays a one-day visit to Kyiv.
FRIDAY, February 25:
Georgia/Czech Republic: Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Prague.
Russia/Armenia: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with President of Armenia Serzh Sarkisian in St. Petersburg.
SATURDAY, February 26:
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan commemorates the Khojaly tragedy of 1992.