The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
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MONDAY, September 2:
Azerbaijan: The U.S.-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) to release a report on human rights in Azerbaijan.
Caucasus: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) holds a meeting in Dubrovnik to discuss the forthcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Georgia: Tbilisi hosts a meeting of representatives of Georgian diplomatic missions abroad.
Moldova/Russia: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visits Chisinau.
Moldova/Sweden: Swedish Parliament President Per Westerberg pays a working visit to Chisinau.
NATO: Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen holds a press conference in Brussels.
TUESDAY, September 3:
Armenia/Russia: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian makes a working visit to Moscow, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
China/Turkmenistan: Chinese President Xi Jinping pays an official visit to Turkmenistan (to September 4).
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz parliament resumes work.
Ukraine: Ukrainian parliament holds its first session after its summer break.
WEDNESDAY, September 4:
Council of Europe: The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights examines a report by Andreas Gross entitled “Refusing impunity for the killers of Sergei Magnitsky” and adopts a draft resolution.
Georgia: Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili holds press conference in Tbilisi.
THURSDAY, September 5:
EU: Vilnius hosts an informal EU defense ministers meeting.
China/Russia: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the eighth G20 Summit in St. Petersburg (to September 6).
G20/Russia: St.Petersburg hosts the G20 Leaders' Summit (to September 6)
Russia: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema opens (to September 11).
FRIDAY, September 6:
Council of Europe: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee in Paris is scheduled to review reports on Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, and Georgia.
EU: Vilnius hosts an informal meeting of the EU foreign ministers (to September 7).
EU/Ukraine: Ukrainian parliament speaker Volodymyr Rybak visits Vilnius to meet with EU officials.
Kazakhstan/China: Chinese President Xi Jinping pays an official visit to Astana (to September 8).
Russia: A final campaign rally in support of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's Moscow mayoral bid to be held in Moscow.
SATURDAY, September 7:
Georgia: The registration of candidates for the October 27 presidential election begins in Georgia (to September 17).
Russia/Moldova: Russian Patriarch Kirill visits Chisinau.
World: 90th anniversary of the foundation of Interpol, the international criminal police organization.
SUNDAY, September 8:
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MONDAY, September 2:
Azerbaijan: The U.S.-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) to release a report on human rights in Azerbaijan.
Caucasus: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) holds a meeting in Dubrovnik to discuss the forthcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Georgia: Tbilisi hosts a meeting of representatives of Georgian diplomatic missions abroad.
Moldova/Russia: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visits Chisinau.
Moldova/Sweden: Swedish Parliament President Per Westerberg pays a working visit to Chisinau.
NATO: Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen holds a press conference in Brussels.
TUESDAY, September 3:
Armenia/Russia: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian makes a working visit to Moscow, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
China/Turkmenistan: Chinese President Xi Jinping pays an official visit to Turkmenistan (to September 4).
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz parliament resumes work.
Ukraine: Ukrainian parliament holds its first session after its summer break.
WEDNESDAY, September 4:
Council of Europe: The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights examines a report by Andreas Gross entitled “Refusing impunity for the killers of Sergei Magnitsky” and adopts a draft resolution.
Georgia: Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili holds press conference in Tbilisi.
THURSDAY, September 5:
EU: Vilnius hosts an informal EU defense ministers meeting.
China/Russia: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the eighth G20 Summit in St. Petersburg (to September 6).
G20/Russia: St.Petersburg hosts the G20 Leaders' Summit (to September 6)
Russia: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema opens (to September 11).
FRIDAY, September 6:
Council of Europe: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee in Paris is scheduled to review reports on Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, and Georgia.
EU: Vilnius hosts an informal meeting of the EU foreign ministers (to September 7).
EU/Ukraine: Ukrainian parliament speaker Volodymyr Rybak visits Vilnius to meet with EU officials.
Kazakhstan/China: Chinese President Xi Jinping pays an official visit to Astana (to September 8).
Russia: A final campaign rally in support of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's Moscow mayoral bid to be held in Moscow.
SATURDAY, September 7:
Georgia: The registration of candidates for the October 27 presidential election begins in Georgia (to September 17).
Russia/Moldova: Russian Patriarch Kirill visits Chisinau.
World: 90th anniversary of the foundation of Interpol, the international criminal police organization.
SUNDAY, September 8:
Kosovo/Serbia: A meeting between prime ministers Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci begins in Brussels.
Macedonia: Independence Day.
Russia: Mayoral election in Moscow.
Russia: The parliament of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia elects the republic's leader.
UN: International Literacy Day.