The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Azerbaijan: National Revival Day.
Czech Republic: The 25th anniversary of the fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia (Velvet Revolution).
Georgia/NATO: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in Brussels.
Global: International Students' Day.
EU: European Union's Foreign Affairs Council begins meeting in Brussels (to November 18).
Kazakhstan: UN Committee against Torture reviews Kazakhstan in Geneva (to November 18).
Russia/Iran: Russian State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin visits Tehran.
Tajikistan: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) President Suma Chakrabarti visits Dushanbe (to November 18).
Ukraine: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin visits Brussels, meets with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
TUESDAY, November 18:
Germany/Russia/Ukraine: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Kyiv and Moscow (to November 19).
Russia/Belarus: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Minsk.
Turkmenistan/Italy: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzimakes visits Ashgabat.
Ukraine/Norway: Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg makes an official visit to Kyiv.
UK/Russia: The Henry Jackson Society in London hosts a discussion titled "Five Years from the Death of Sergei Magnitsky."
UN: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) publishes its State of World Population 2014 report.
U.S./Czech Republic: Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and unveil a bust of the late Czech President Vaclav Havel in the Capitol, the seat of the U.S. Congress.
WEDNESDAY, November 19:
Montenegro/NATO: Montenegrin Justice Minister Dusko Markovic visits Brussels, meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
Russia/Hungary: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in Moscow.
U.S.: The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, holds a hearing titled: “Combating Corruption in the OSCE Region: The Link between Security and Good Governance.”
THURSDAY, November 20:
EU/Serbia: EU's new neighborhood and enlargement negotiation commissioner Johannes Hahn visits Belgrade.
Moldova: Ukrainian and Polish Presidents Petro Poroshenko and Bronislaw Komorowski visit Chisinau in show of support for Moldova’s pro-European course.
NATO/Baltic States: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visits Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (to November 21).
Turkey: Atlantic Council Energy and Economic Summit opens in Istanbul (to November 21).
UK/Russia: Chatham House in London holds a discussion titled "Russian Energy: The New International Context."
U.S./Czech Republic: The National Endowment for Democracy and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington host a conference titled "25 Years After the Velvet Revolution: The Continuing Struggle for a Europe Whole and Free."
FRIDAY, November 21:
Azerbaijan: Baku hosts the 43rd session of the European Olympic Committee (to November 22).
Montenegro: EU's new neighborhood and enlargement negotiation commissioner Johannes Hahn visits Podgorica.
Turkmesnitan/CIS: Ashgabat to host a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) heads of government meeting.
Ukraine: Day of Dignity and Freedom.
Ukraine: The first anniversary of the Ukrainian protest movement known as Euromaidan that swept former President Viktor Yanukovych.
U.S./Russia: U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller visits Moscow (to November 22).
U.S./Ukraine: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Kyiv.
SATURDAY, November 22:
Ukraine: Holodomor Remembrance Day.
SUNDAY, November 23:
Russia: The eighth anniversary of ex-KGB officer turned Kremlin critic Aleksandr Litvinenko's death in London.