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, July 8:
Azerbaijan/Armenia/OSCE: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara visits Baku and Yerevan.
Azerbaijan/EU: A delegation of European Parliament members visits Baku (to July 9).
Belarus/Bangladesh: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Minsk (to July 10).
Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina: Croatian President Ivo Josipovic visits Sarajevo and Tuzla (to July 9).
EU: European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee meeting begins in Brussels, with Belarus, Kosovo, Egypt, and EU enlargement on the agenda.
Kazakhstan/U.S.: Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrisov pays an official visit to the United States (to July 10).
Moldova/Slovakia: Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak visits Chisinau to open his country's embassy in Moldova.
Serbia/Kosovo: Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci meet in Brussels.
Tajikistan/New Zealand: Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi visits New Zealand.
UN: The 108th session of the Human Rights Committee to be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva (to July 26).
TUESDAY, July 9:
Armenia/EU: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele visits Yerevan (to July 10).
Moldova/EU: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visits Chisinau.
Russia/Israel: Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni visits Moscow.
World: Anticorruption watchdog Transparency International publishes its "Global Corruption Barometer 2013" report.
World: Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, begins.
WEDNESDAY, July 10:
Belarus/Russia: Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makey visits Moscow to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Moldova/OSCE: The Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on protracted conflicts, Andriy Deschytsia, visits Chisinau and Tiraspol (to July 12).
THURSDAY, July 11:
Belarus: The 22st International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar opens in Vitebsk (to July 15).
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Eighteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
Georgia/EU: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele visits Tbilisi and Batumi (to July 12).
Kazakhstan: Amnesty International publishes its report titled "Old Habits: The Routine Use of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Kazakhstan."
Moldova: Third summit of Eastern Partnership heads of state whose parties are members of the European People’s Party (EPP) to be held in Chisinau.
UN: World Population Day.
FRIDAY, July 12:
Russia/Ukraine: An intergovernmental meeting of the prime ministers of Ukraine and Russia starts in Sochi.
Ukraine: Odessa International Film Festival opens (to July 20).
SATURDAY, July 13:
Kyrgyzstan/SCO: Kyrgyzstan hosts a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states.
Montenegro: Statehood Day.
SUNDAY, July 14:
Iraq: Republic Day.
Ukraine/Poland: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit Lutsk (Ukraine’s Volyn region) to commemorate victims of the Volyn tragedy of 1943-45.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, July 8:
Azerbaijan/Armenia/OSCE: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara visits Baku and Yerevan.
Azerbaijan/EU: A delegation of European Parliament members visits Baku (to July 9).
Belarus/Bangladesh: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Minsk (to July 10).
Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina: Croatian President Ivo Josipovic visits Sarajevo and Tuzla (to July 9).
EU: European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee meeting begins in Brussels, with Belarus, Kosovo, Egypt, and EU enlargement on the agenda.
Kazakhstan/U.S.: Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrisov pays an official visit to the United States (to July 10).
Moldova/Slovakia: Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak visits Chisinau to open his country's embassy in Moldova.
Serbia/Kosovo: Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci meet in Brussels.
Tajikistan/New Zealand: Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi visits New Zealand.
UN: The 108th session of the Human Rights Committee to be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva (to July 26).
TUESDAY, July 9:
Armenia/EU: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele visits Yerevan (to July 10).
Moldova/EU: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visits Chisinau.
Russia/Israel: Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni visits Moscow.
World: Anticorruption watchdog Transparency International publishes its "Global Corruption Barometer 2013" report.
World: Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, begins.
WEDNESDAY, July 10:
Belarus/Russia: Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makey visits Moscow to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Moldova/OSCE: The Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on protracted conflicts, Andriy Deschytsia, visits Chisinau and Tiraspol (to July 12).
THURSDAY, July 11:
Belarus: The 22st International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar opens in Vitebsk (to July 15).
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Eighteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
Georgia/EU: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele visits Tbilisi and Batumi (to July 12).
Kazakhstan: Amnesty International publishes its report titled "Old Habits: The Routine Use of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Kazakhstan."
Moldova: Third summit of Eastern Partnership heads of state whose parties are members of the European People’s Party (EPP) to be held in Chisinau.
UN: World Population Day.
FRIDAY, July 12:
Russia/Ukraine: An intergovernmental meeting of the prime ministers of Ukraine and Russia starts in Sochi.
Ukraine: Odessa International Film Festival opens (to July 20).
SATURDAY, July 13:
Kyrgyzstan/SCO: Kyrgyzstan hosts a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states.
Montenegro: Statehood Day.
SUNDAY, July 14:
Iraq: Republic Day.
Ukraine/Poland: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit Lutsk (Ukraine’s Volyn region) to commemorate victims of the Volyn tragedy of 1943-45.