The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, October 15:
Armenia/Russia: Armenian National Security Council Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan visits Moscow.
Azerbaijan: The 20th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to be held in Baku.
EU: Luxembourg hosts an EU foreign ministers meeting to discuss the latest developments in Belarus, Georgia, Iran, and Syria.
EU/Georgia: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele meets with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze in Luxembourg.
Iran/Azerbaijan: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visits Baku to attend a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
Kyrgyzstan: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek arrives for a working visit in Kyrgyzstan (to October 18).
Ukraine: A Kharkiv court resumes hearing a criminal case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
UN: 106th session of the Human Rights Committee begins in Geneva (to November 2).
UN: International Day of Rural Women.
World: The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 to be announced in Stockholm.
World: The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
TUESDAY, October 16:
Azerbaijan: Leaders of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey attend the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit in Baku.
Balkans: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) starts Goran Hadzic’s trial and Radovan Karadzic’s defense case in The Hague.
EU/Croatia/Serbia: The European Medal of Tolerance to be awarded to Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and former Serbian President Boris Tadic in Brussels.
Uzbekistan/France: Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov visits Paris.
UN: World Food Day.
WEDNESDAY, October 17:
Russia: Russian Internet Week (RIW-2012) opens in Moscow.
UN: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
THURSDAY, October 18:
Azerbaijan: Independence Day.
EU: European Union summit opens in Brussels (to October 19).
Georgia: NATO Secretary-General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visits Tbilisi.
UN: Security Council members vote on a temporary seat at the Security Council.
SATURDAY, October 20:
Georgia: First session of the new parliament starts in Kutaisi.
Russia: Russian Opposition Council elections (to October 21).
SUNDAY, October 21:
Czech Republic: The 16th annual Forum 2000 conference gathers global leaders from politics, academia, religion, business, and civil society to discuss key issues facing our civilization (to October 23).
World: Berlin hosts the World Health Summit 2012 (to October 24).
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, October 15:
Armenia/Russia: Armenian National Security Council Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan visits Moscow.
Azerbaijan: The 20th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to be held in Baku.
EU: Luxembourg hosts an EU foreign ministers meeting to discuss the latest developments in Belarus, Georgia, Iran, and Syria.
EU/Georgia: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele meets with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze in Luxembourg.
Iran/Azerbaijan: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visits Baku to attend a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
Kyrgyzstan: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek arrives for a working visit in Kyrgyzstan (to October 18).
Ukraine: A Kharkiv court resumes hearing a criminal case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
UN: 106th session of the Human Rights Committee begins in Geneva (to November 2).
UN: International Day of Rural Women.
World: The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 to be announced in Stockholm.
World: The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
TUESDAY, October 16:
Azerbaijan: Leaders of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey attend the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit in Baku.
Balkans: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) starts Goran Hadzic’s trial and Radovan Karadzic’s defense case in The Hague.
EU/Croatia/Serbia: The European Medal of Tolerance to be awarded to Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and former Serbian President Boris Tadic in Brussels.
Uzbekistan/France: Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov visits Paris.
UN: World Food Day.
WEDNESDAY, October 17:
Russia: Russian Internet Week (RIW-2012) opens in Moscow.
UN: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
THURSDAY, October 18:
Azerbaijan: Independence Day.
EU: European Union summit opens in Brussels (to October 19).
Georgia: NATO Secretary-General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visits Tbilisi.
UN: Security Council members vote on a temporary seat at the Security Council.
SATURDAY, October 20:
Georgia: First session of the new parliament starts in Kutaisi.
Russia: Russian Opposition Council elections (to October 21).
SUNDAY, October 21:
Czech Republic: The 16th annual Forum 2000 conference gathers global leaders from politics, academia, religion, business, and civil society to discuss key issues facing our civilization (to October 23).
World: Berlin hosts the World Health Summit 2012 (to October 24).