The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Azerbaijan: First parliamentary session in 2015 opens in Baku.
China: Beijing hosts a meeting of foreign ministers of China, India, and Russia.
German/Hungary: German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Budapest.
UN: UN holds World Interfaith Harmony Week aimed to promote harmony among all people regardless of their faith (to February 8).
UN: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances holds a session in Geneva (to February 13).
TUESDAY, February 3:
Armenia: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances reviews Armenia during a session in Geneva (to February 4).
Croatia/Serbia: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague delivers its judgment in a case brought by Croatia against Serbia.
Russia/Turkmenistan: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Ashgabat.
Ukraine: A delegation of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s advisory body for legal affairs, visits Kyiv to discuss cooperation on constitutional and judicial reforms.
WEDNESDAY, February 4
Global: World Cancer Day.
History: The 70th anniversary of the opening 1945 Yalta conference attended by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin where Europe's reorganization following World War II was discussed.
Serbia: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances reviews Serbia during a session in Geneva.
UK/Russia: Chatham House in London hosts a discussion titled The Politics of Lawmaking in Russia.
THURSDAY, February 5
Culture: Berlinale Film Festival (to February 15).
NATO: Brussels hosts a NATO defense ministers meeting.
Tajikistan: U.S. State Department officials Daniel Rosenblum and Steven Feldstein are scheduled to visit Dushanbe (to February 6).
U.S./Ukraine: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and other senior Ukrainian leaders.
FRIDAY, February 6
Culture: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony held in London.
Germany: The 51st Munich Security Conference opens (to February 8).
Russia: Moscow hosts the first meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council attended by the heads of government of Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
UN: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.
U.S./EU: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visits Brussels, meets with European Council President Donald Tusk, European Parliament President Martin Schulz, and other European Union leaders.
SUNDAY, February 8
Germany/U.S./Canada: German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Washington and Ottawa (to February 10).