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, January 21:
Armenia: Presidential election campaign begins.
EU: European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting in Brussels to discuss the EC-Ukraine agreement on the facilitation of the issuance of visas and progress reports on the Balkan countries (to January 22).
Council of Europe: 2013 Winter PACE Session opens in Strasbourg with focus on the situations in Azerbaijan and Kosovo, as well as on the humanitarian situation in the conflict- and war-affected areas of Georgia and Russia (to January 25).
OSCE/Moldova: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara visits Chisinau and Tiraspol (January 22).
OSCE/Uzbekistan: OSCE Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier visits Tashkent.
EU/Montenegro: Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic visits Brussels.
Pakistan: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari summons the country's parliament in Islamabad.
Russia/Iran: Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev visits Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials.
U.S.: Washington hosts the 57th presidential inauguration.
TUESDAY, January 22:
Georgia: Georgian Rustavi-2 television hosts debates between Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri and former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili.
EU: Brussels hosts an EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
Israel: General elections.
Mecedonia/EU: Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki visits Brussels, meets with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele.
Turkmenistan: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara is scheduled to visit Ashgabat (to January 23).
WEDNESDAY, January 23:
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a news conference in Moscow to outline results of Russian diplomacy in 2012.
Ukraine/EU: EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht holds talks with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko in Kyiv.
U.S.: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
World: Swiss city of Davos hosts the Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 (to January 27).
THURSDAY, January 24:
Kazakhstan/Russia: Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov visits Moscow (to January 25).
Ukraine: Ukraine is expected to sign a shale-gas deal with the Dutch-British company Royal Dutch Shell.
FRIDAY, January 25:
Czech Republic: Former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman in runoff against the current Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg in the second round of the Czech presidential election (to January 26).
Russia: 75th anniversary of the birth of the late Vladimir Vysotsky, the immensely popular Soviet-era actor, singer, and poet.
U.S./Afghanistan: United States Institute of Peace in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Political and Economic Transition Challenges in Afghanistan."
SATURDAY, January 26:
Russia: Opposition organizations plan to hold a rally in Moscow to demand an investigation into Aleksandr Dolmatov's suicide in the Netherlands.
SUNDAY, January 27:
UN: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, January 21:
Armenia: Presidential election campaign begins.
EU: European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting in Brussels to discuss the EC-Ukraine agreement on the facilitation of the issuance of visas and progress reports on the Balkan countries (to January 22).
Council of Europe: 2013 Winter PACE Session opens in Strasbourg with focus on the situations in Azerbaijan and Kosovo, as well as on the humanitarian situation in the conflict- and war-affected areas of Georgia and Russia (to January 25).
OSCE/Moldova: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara visits Chisinau and Tiraspol (January 22).
OSCE/Uzbekistan: OSCE Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier visits Tashkent.
EU/Montenegro: Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic visits Brussels.
Pakistan: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari summons the country's parliament in Islamabad.
Russia/Iran: Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev visits Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials.
U.S.: Washington hosts the 57th presidential inauguration.
TUESDAY, January 22:
Georgia: Georgian Rustavi-2 television hosts debates between Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri and former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili.
EU: Brussels hosts an EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
Israel: General elections.
Mecedonia/EU: Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki visits Brussels, meets with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele.
Turkmenistan: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara is scheduled to visit Ashgabat (to January 23).
WEDNESDAY, January 23:
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a news conference in Moscow to outline results of Russian diplomacy in 2012.
Ukraine/EU: EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht holds talks with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko in Kyiv.
U.S.: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
World: Swiss city of Davos hosts the Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 (to January 27).
THURSDAY, January 24:
Kazakhstan/Russia: Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov visits Moscow (to January 25).
Ukraine: Ukraine is expected to sign a shale-gas deal with the Dutch-British company Royal Dutch Shell.
FRIDAY, January 25:
Czech Republic: Former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman in runoff against the current Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg in the second round of the Czech presidential election (to January 26).
Russia: 75th anniversary of the birth of the late Vladimir Vysotsky, the immensely popular Soviet-era actor, singer, and poet.
U.S./Afghanistan: United States Institute of Peace in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Political and Economic Transition Challenges in Afghanistan."
SATURDAY, January 26:
Russia: Opposition organizations plan to hold a rally in Moscow to demand an investigation into Aleksandr Dolmatov's suicide in the Netherlands.
SUNDAY, January 27:
UN: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
